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Banks come out on top for climate change disclosure

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
Australian banks are one of the best performing sectors for climate-related disclosure and sustainability reporting according to the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors. In its 10th annual corporate sustainability report, which assesses the ...

Aussie agriculture reaches new highs

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
Agriculture Census data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics highlights opportunities for institutional investors as the total value of Australia's agriculture production continues to rise. During 2015-16, the gross value of Australian agriculture ...

Fintechs pose disintermediation threat: CFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
The latest CFA Institute report shows fintechs specialising in blockchain, robo-advice, mobile payments and peer-to-peer lending have the highest potential to disintermediate the financial services industry. CFA Society Sydney president Anthony Serhan ...

Low inflation exporter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
Recall those days when China was accused of exporting deflation to the rest of the world? The days when dirt cheap "Made in China" products were flooding the rest of the world (they still are). It was so prevalent that in January 2004, the US Federal ...

Responsible investment continues to gain acceptance among investors

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
A growing acceptance of responsible investment by millennials, women, affluent investors and institutional investors is moving the approach from being considered niche and product-specific to one which has broader appeal among global institutional and ...

Looking ahead key to flipping bad money habits

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... mismanagement is the result of a severe disconnect from our future selves. UBank, NAB's digital-only offering, conducted research in partnership with consumer neuroscience expert Dr. Phil Harris from the University of Melbourne. It found the population ...

Vamos returns as governance firm chief executive

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, Pauline Vamos, has become the chief executive of a firm providing ESG research to institutional investors. From today, Vamos will take the helm at Regnan, which is jointly owned by BT Investment Management ...

Economics 101 is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
The first thing we learned in economics is how prices are determined by the interaction between demand and supply. High demand and low supply causes prices to rise - and vice-versa. Economists have already coined the term "stagflation" - an economic ...

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
The release of the minutes of the Fed's and the ECB's June meetings have brought back financial market trepidation - sparked by last week's hawkish comments from central bank heads of the US, the Eurozone and the UK - that the end of cheap money is ...

OC Funds Management wins mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
... three and five years, respectively as at June. The mandate follows OC recently receiving a 'recommended' rating from research houses Zenith and Lonsec, Brodie added. OC partners with multi-boutique investment management group Copia Investment Partners. ...