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BlackRock wakes up to climate change

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
BlackRock will double its ESG ETF offerings, dump investments in thermal coal and increase sustainable assets under management tenfold this decade. All this, just six months after it was revealed that BlackRock lost more than $133 billion by investing ...

Insurers halt sales to fire-affected areas

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
Two of the nation's largest insurers have temporarily halted sales of insurance policies to fire-affected areas in New South Wales and Victoria. Suncorp and IAG have put a temporary embargo on areas across both states in a move to stop people from panic-buying ...

Boutique fund manager chief retires

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
A $14 billion Melbourne equities boutique is looking for a new chief executive as the incumbent retires. Steve Schubert retired as Cooper Investors' chief executive in December. He first joined the boutique in May 2015 as its chief operating officer ...

Former RBC I&TS lead joins tech firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
The former managing director of RBC Investor & Treasury Services has been named chief executive of a financial advice technology provider. David Travers has joined Fourth Line, a risk management and compliance regtech solution as its chief executive. ...

Chief economist update: A busy 2020 for Abe, BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
The world economy would advance by 2.5% this year, a tad stronger than the "post-crisis low" of 2.4% estimated for 2019. This is the World Bank's prediction contained in its January 2020 'Global Economic Prospects' report, noting that: "While ...

Credit Suisse backs sustainability amid Federer furore

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
Investment bank and financial services powerhouse Credit Suisse has backed sustainability as the dominant investment theme of the coming decade, despite ongoing uproar around its investment in fossil fuels. The prediction comes as Australia's bushfire ...

RBA crushes hopes of Libra launch

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
The Reserve Bank of Australia will not allow tech giant Facebook to launch its cryptocurrency Libra in Australia until all risks and regulatory requirements have been mitigated. And even if these regulatory requirements were met there wouldn't be ...

Faith-based super fund increases fees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
The faith-based superannuation fund for Muslims has announced an increase to its administration fee. Crescent Wealth Superannuation Fund upped its administration fee from 0.69% per annum to 0.89% per annum. The changes come after the promoter of the ...

LGIAsuper offloads European assets

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
The European real estate manager for LGIAsuper has sold-off two of its property assets in Paris and Copenhagen, raking in a nice $36.5 million for the Queensland-based super fund. Europa Capital sold its Semaphore investment, an office building west ...

Advice group partners with new platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
An ASX-listed platform provider has won a mandate from a Melbourne-based private wealth management firm. Wattle Partners Private Wealth Managers has selected Powerwrap to provide its clients with platform administration and reporting services as well ...