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Macquarie unveils green ambitions in New York

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... Shemara Wikramanayake before fellow global business leaders at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum during the UN Summit this week, Macquarie's plans include delivering around 4GW of its renewable energy project pipeline in non-OECD emerging market countries ...

State Street bolsters transition team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... with a hire from Ord Minnett who also has experience in transition at Goldman Sachs. Abhilash Menon joined State Street this week as multi asset class transition manager (vice president). He will be responsible for both Australian and New Zealand based ...

Industry fund awards $125 million mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... relationship: Christian Super funded a passive screened international equities mandate in December last year. Christian Super this week became the first Australian superannuation funds to sign the Principles of Impact Management launches in April this ...

Super trustees must do better: Byres

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
... poorly performing superannuation funds, according to chair Wayne Byres. Speaking at a Gilbert + Tobin event in Sydney this week, Byres said the ability of the prudential regulator to hold trustees to account for not delivering for super fund members ...

Big Super Day Out success, but more to be done

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... Trustees calls for more work to improve Indigenous super outcomes. Releasing its Indigenous Super Summit 2019 report this week, the AIST noted the challenges Indigenous Australians face when engaging with the super system, such as meeting basic identification ...

Members' interests bill sits on the precipice

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... may not be you who gets the benefit of this so-called choice." However, Rainmaker research set to be presented later this week at the annual Australian Payroll Association conference shows the government's superannuation policy will ensure younger workers ...

One regulatory regime enough: FSC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... of the TPB as a secondary regulator of financial advisers," the FSC said. Separately, the council went on the record this week to support extending the unfair contract terms regime to life insurance but has stipulated adjustments should be made to allow ...

Vanguard appoints operation risk lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2019
... been at Vanguard since 2012, starting as an operational risk analyst. Prior to this, she worked at JBWere. Vanguard this week opened its first fundamentally managed active funds in Australia, managed by external managers. The Vanguard Active Global Growth ...

United front but no merger: AFA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... given the AFA and the FPA represent about 70% of Australia's financial advisers. Appearing at the FSC Summit earlier this week, De Gori didn't rule out the possibility however, saying any merger would be up to the members of each association. "We've ...

Advice association merger up to members

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... Association of Australia chief executive Dante De Gori. Speaking at the Financial Services Council Summit in Sydney this week, the head of the FPA said the advice industry was still being "ripped apart" in Canberra for not showing a united face in the ...