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Regulators to clamp down harder on greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... 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 ...

Rapid growth in super sector poses risk to financial stability: RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
Significant growth of the superannuation sector has set off alarm bells for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). In the RBA's September Financial Stability Review, it said the super sector's growth and connections to Australian banks has increased its ...

Household wealth rises in June quarter

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... growth. "House prices have continued to rise across most states and territories, despite high interest rates," ABS head of finance statistics Mish Tan said. "This largely reflects ongoing housing supply constraints and an uptick in investor activity ...

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

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
... including in product disclosure statements, on Vanguard's website, in a press release, in a YouTube video, and in a Finance News Network presentation. Despite being an 'ethical' fund, more than 70% of the fund's holdings by market value ...

GAM Investments loses local lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... family offices in Australia. Separately, GAM has announced a deal with Galena Asset Management, a specialist in commodity finance and the investment arm of the US$225 billion Trafigura Group. The deal has two main aspects: a global distribution arrangement ...

More financially secure women seek advice: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
Financially secure women in the second half of their lives prioritise living comfortably in retirement and travelling as their key goals and seek financial advice to maintain a level of prosperity, a new survey from Perpetual Private found. Canvassing ...

Inquiry urges government to consider paid reproductive leave

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... change in community attitudes and the leadership of government to see them treated like other forms of leave that the finance sector has led the way on - like paid parental leave and domestic violence leave," Finance Sector Union national secretary Julia ...

RBA doubling down on wholesale CBDC

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... a wholesale CBDC a few years back, as well as a pilot program to see the viability of CBDC in partnership with Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre launched in 2022. Commenting, assistant governor Brad Jones at the RBA said: "The RBA is making ...

Muzinich & Co. partners to launch infrastructure debt strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
... areas such as renewable energy, utilities and energy transportation, telecoms, digital infrastructure, and real estate. Finance from credit investors has a major role to play in this transition," Tan added. "Our partnership with Orion3, supported by ...

Janus Henderson to manage new tokenised treasury fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
... head of innovation Nick Cherney said the partnership is an important step toward "bridging traditional and decentralised finance," by bringing institutional collateral pools into decentralised autonomous organisation and stablecoin ecosystems. "Our innovation ...