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More clarity needed in key person risk management: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
... including that company disclosures should include information on key employee movements relevant to the operational performance of the business; availability of specialised skills where this may have affected capability to address business model threats ...

Why it shouldn't be called impact investing

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
... that the term implies a disconnect between environmental awareness and the actual business of delivering investment performance - when, in fact, the two are inextricably linked. "Fund managers have yet to come to grips with the fact that green assets ...

Merger sees advice firms capitalise on capabilities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... merge on October 1. At the end of the month, Navacue Accountants & Financial Advisors will become Modoras Financial Performance Solutions - a progression of an existing partnership. In announcing the merger, Modoras Group said the move will see a combination ...

Mercer names new chief investment officer

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... Pacific. Long serving TCorp senior manager Kylie Willment will join Mercer from 25 October, overseeing the investment performance of Mercer's suite of diversified funds and asset class building blocks. She will work closely with Mercer's global wealth ...

The disconnect at the heart of financial services

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... Street's research on the idea of "phi," which attempted to delineate a "hidden variable" in quantifying investment performance. Joking that State Street picked phi - the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet - because "the asset management industry had already ...

Labor takes aim at executive pay

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... fee payable to the chair at $202,280 and the fee for other members at $101,170. Board members are not eligible for performance-related payments. Chalmers noted that the Turnbull Government has informally asked some Commonwealth entities to revert back ...

New manager for Charter Hall fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... welcome someone of Matt's calibre and experience to the office leadership team to further drive the sector leading performance of CPOF."

Boring is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... All Ordinaries index fluctuating between down 2.9% and up 10.7% over the same period. For sure, the RBA monitors the performance of the stock and currency (and property) markets due to their impact on the general economy but these are not its mandate. ...

Who's afraid of North Korea? Not the South Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... don't think that they really care until they do have a realistic sense or signs of some kind of war looming up." The performance of South Korea's financial markets attests to this. Unlike the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98 that saw the country's capital ...

US shares dominating other asset classes

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... annum, or $66,164; and cash would have returned 6.4% per annum, or $65,127. Vanguard said it was important to view the performance of a diversified portfolio of assets in a 30-year context, because "in any given year, any asset class can finish on top. ...