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RQI Investors promotes three staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
... Acadian Asset Management and a scientific equities portfolio manager at BlackRock, leading index portfolios and running sustainable investments in Australia. In addition to teaching at New York University and the University of Technology, she is a member ...

Labor delivers another budget surplus, but productivity stalls

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
... average," Productivity Commission deputy chair Alex Robson said. "Increasing productivity is still the surest path to sustainable increases in real wages and higher living standards." The report noted that while our overall productivity performance has ...

Regulators to clamp down harder on greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... ESG reporting going forward," she said. Meanwhile, KPMG Global ESG Asset Management lead Geri McMahon said while the sustainable finance taxonomies are being developed in each country, the onus on each asset manager would be to define then what sustainable ...

Vanguard to pay $13m in greenwashing case brought by ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
... said. "The size of the penalty should send a strong deterrent message to others in the market to carefully review any sustainable investment claims."

Magellan makes internal PM moves

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
... Global Opportunities strategy since its inception in December 2021. He is also the portfolio manager for the Global Sustainable strategies. Prior to Magellan, Pullen spent seven years as an analyst and portfolio manager at Maple-Brown Abbott, primarily ...

Investment boutique calls time after seven years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
Wheelhouse Investment Partners is closing its doors, having decided it's no longer financially sustainable to continue operating its funds. Wheelhouse Investment Partners was founded in May 2017 as a specialist income manager by Alastair MacLeod ...

Muzinich & Co. partners to launch infrastructure debt strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
... debt offering into infrastructure and real assets will enable clients to participate in the much-needed investment in sustainable infrastructure, while also providing diversification and a potential illiquidity premium over other asset classes." Andrew ...

HESTA lowers insurance fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
... categories pay $2.87 and $2.01 per week respectively for a 90-day waiting period. Also from September 28, HESTA's Sustainable Growth option is due for a shake-up. The option's strategic asset allocation will be brought to similar levels as the ...

Former industry fund chief in new role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024
... manager said Baird will be pivotal in refining its investment strategy and building a financial framework that promotes sustainable growth. Prime Value Asset Management chief executive and co-founder Yak Yong Quek said the former industry fund boss' ...

Superannuation objective legislation hits Senate floor

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024
... to preserve savings to deliver income for a dignified retirement, alongside government support, in an equitable and sustainable way. "The objective will provide a shared understanding of superannuation and ensure that the focus of superannuation is on ...