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Cerberus affiliate buys Aussie SME lender

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... voluntary administration in April this year but has been fully operational throughout. It will operate as a privately held company following its acquisition, after the deed of company arrangement was signed earlier this month. Under the new ownership ...

Morgans snaps up CommSec Advisory business

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... financial advice business, to Morgans," a CommSec spokesperson said. Morgans said the transition was a natural fit for the company, with managing director John Clifford saying he is "delighted" CommSec chose the firm for the tender. "We are excited to ...

Bloomberg launches equity benchmarks

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... factors into investment decision making in a rigorous, scalable way." The R-Factor score reflects the performance of a company's business operations and governance as it relates to financially material ESG issues. Head of ESG investments and asset stewardship ...

Purdue bankruptcy vindicates ESG screens

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... Purdue Pharma has filed for bankruptcy after facing a slew of lawsuits for the mismarketing of its product OxyContin. The company's marketing and mislabelling of OxyContin has seen it accused of causing the opioid addiction crisis in the US. Purdue announced ...

QIC launches China bond fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... US$50 million QIC Ping An China Corporate Bond Fund is a partnership between QIC and China's Ping An Asset Management Company (PAAMC). The fund is one of the first Australian funds to give investors access to China's corporate bond market, which ...

Boutique wins industry fund mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... across more than 200 companies, which has involved assessing almost 3000 individual data points and undertaking over 350 company meetings in the past year. "We have found that global benchmarks and "off the shelf" ESG research has not been detailed enough ...

Brett Himbury's next innings

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
... IFM Investors chief executive will only be 57 when he retires in December next year, but he says the time is right. The company announced Himbury's intention to retire yesterday morning, after 10 years at the industry-fund-owned manager which has ...

IFM Investors boss to retire

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... Himbury's tenure, he will work closely with the IFM Investors team and board to facilitate a smooth transition, the company said. Himbury has spent close to four decades in executive roles. He led Tyndall Investment Management before joining IFM. ...

Vanguard pilots new robo offering

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... confirmed to Financial Standard: "Vanguard is in the early stages of a pilot for a new advice service in the US." The company does not have any immediate plans to expand the Digital Advisor offering outside the US. "While we are always considering new ...

Banks face imminent disruption

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... many consumers. Square is a product attached to mobile phones that functions as a credit card. Wood highlighted that the company also has a powerful marketing capacity since it collects an enormous amount of data and knows when to target people for loans. ...