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Productivity woes endure in March quarter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... economic development and productivity growth. She highlighted that in the last 150 years, rising income in the industrialised world has been accompanied by a steady drop in working hours by almost 50%. "Productivity growth has helped people find thousands ...

Green moves: Airtrunk, JPMorgan, T. Rowe Price

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... strategies aim for both benchmark outperformance and measurable impact. In addition, T. Rowe Price and IFC, a member of the World Bank, announced plans to create a pioneering global blue bond strategy to increase access to finance for blue projects in ...

T. Rowe Price welcomes head of impact fixed income

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... strategies aim for both benchmark outperformance and measurable impact. In addition, T. Rowe Price and IFC, a member of the World Bank, announced plans to create a pioneering global blue bond strategy to increase access to finance for blue projects in ...

JANA executive jumps to Channel

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
Channel Capital has welcomed a veteran asset consultant to the group as head of investment oversight. The appointment of JANA executive Matthew Griffith underlines Channel Capital's move to enhance its investment and portfolio governance platform. ...

Rest, NZ Super Fund top global rankings for best practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... sustainability, and resilience. Established in 2020, the annual study examines all the publicly available information from the world's largest sovereign wealth and public pension funds to compile its scorecard. It assesses criteria including transparency ...

Select stocks in charge of their own destiny: Aoris

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... popularity, the company struggled to grow its footprint in the China market. "China's the second largest beauty market in the world after the US... it's been an important growth for L'Oreal; they've operated there for decades and grown a lot in that ...

Australian wealth increases despite variable global growth: UBS

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... million more millionaires by 2029 - Australia now has close to two million USD millionaires, ranking eighth globally. "The world added over 680,000 new USD millionaires in 2024, an uptick of 1.2%," the report said. "We expect their number to keep rising ...

Rest pilots Payday Super tech, moves to implement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... with Rest and MUFG Retirement Solutions, which rigorously tested our industry-leading employer services platform in a real-world superannuation environment," Wrkr chief executive Trent Lund said. "The participating Rest employers provided positive feedback ...

Boutiques wield independence, specialisation over larger managers: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... challenge now is to make sure the ecosystem - from consultants to platforms - keeps pace with the evidence," he said. "In a world of shrinking alpha and increased industry consolidation, we're urging gatekeepers to rethink how they value specialist ...

Middle Australia on track for 'comfortable retirement': ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... dignified retirement for ordinary Australians, with today's 30-year-olds reaping the rewards of decades of progress in our world-class super system," Delahunty said. "... we can now say that the system foundations are cemented for young, working people ...