Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 331 - 340 of 3901 results for "Country"

BlackRock to launch new ETF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024
... viewed emerging markets as a single asset class. However, this perspective has evolved. There is now growing interest in country-specific allocations, such as China or India, in addition to broad emerging market exposures. This shift enables investors ...

Active Super found guilty of greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
... invasion of Ukraine. For example, an Active Super Responsible Investment report highlighted 'RUSSIA OUT' as a country exclusion. That report revealed that Active Super held investments in Russian stocks through two emerging market funds but begun ...

Former director sentenced to seven years in prison

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
... that his dishonesty contributed to particularly devastating financial positions for those victims. ASIC said Ali left the country on 8 May 2018, during ongoing civil proceedings commenced against him by ASIC and while there was an ongoing ASIC investigation ...

New platform launches for high-net-worth families

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024
... wealth platform that aims to address challenges that individuals, families and professional advisers face as part of the country's $3.5 trillion intergenerational wealth transfer, including administrative inefficiencies and managing both traditional ...

Equip Super awards custody mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2024
... effect on April 2. Equip Super merged with Catholic Super in 2019 and together have about 140,000 members. Northern Trust country executive for Australia and New Zealand Leon Stavrou said the decision by Equip Super to select Northern Trust underlines ...

BitConnect promoter pleads guilty

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024
... cryptocurrency platform that offered a financial product known as the Lending Platform on social media and seminars across the country. Bigatton faced the Sydney District Court on May 16 and admitted to providing unlicensed financial services on behalf ...

Loomis Sayles brings global bond fund to Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024
... and aggressive when bond markets are in dislocation, to find great value for our clients." Natixis Investment Managers country head of Australia and New Zealand Louise Watson said Loomis Sayles is a leading name in fixed income. She noted that the strategy ...

Aware Super hires head of corporate development

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
... benchmarks for the industry to follow through our leading administration system which is reimagining retirement in this country for all Australians." For his part, Stevens said: "Within the Australian super landscape, Aware Super's leading and innovative ...

Liberals respond to Federal Budget

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
... chief executive Mary Delahunty said. "While ASFA welcomes constructive discussions on how best to ensure everyone in this country has a safe place to live, our research demonstrates that early withdrawal of superannuation will worsen intergenerational ...

ANZ transfers Will bank to Equity Trustees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... a decision to cease estate planning services from July. Equity Trustees will have one of the largest Will banks in the country as a result of the move, adding to the sizeable bank acquired in the Australian Executor Trustees deal at the end of 2022. ...