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Experienced advisers in education limbo

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2022
Experienced financial advisers that have yet to gain a bachelor's degree or equivalent are caught in the middle of a political maelstrom promising an easier education pathway. With both major parties announcing significant changes to adviser qualifications ...

Principals' Community retains BT members

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2022
The newly independent Principals' Community has retained 92% of previous members after parting ways with BT Financial Group. The community, headed up Kon Costas, is a service for self-licensed financial advice businesses - offering support, education ...

ETF investors soar to 1.7m

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2022
Retail investors continue to flock to passive strategies as new research shows the number of users soared to a new high of 1.7 million. Investment Trends estimated a 33% rise in the number of users of exchange-traded products during 2021, while a further ...

Alpha females

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... are 40% or more female, while 15 companies have boards that are 50% or more female." Investing with this kind of data in mind is known as gender-lens investing and is generally classified as a sub-section of responsible investing or ESG investing. For ...

NZ Super Fund excludes Russian debt, state-owned holdings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2022
The NZ Super Fund and three other New Zealand institutional investors have excluded Russian sovereign debt and investments in majority state-owned enterprises and will look to divest any current holdings as soon as possible. NZ Super Fund, the Accident ...

Pendal appoints portfolio manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2022
Pendal has appointed a new portfolio manager to its Australian midcap fund as Andrew Waddington prepares to retire. Currently co-managing the $512 million fund, Brenton Saunders will take on full responsibility for the fund on April 1, at which time ...

Chief economist: Is this a buy op?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
... invasion creates for investors everywhere. For one, it complicates central banks' efforts to control inflation. Never mind other commodity prices, the price of crude oil has shot up on the back of the Russian adventure. Brent oil US$104.99 per barrel ...

ISPT chief executive steps down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2022
... confidence of our investors, employees, board members, partners and service providers. He not only keeps our purpose front-of-mind every day, but he lives and breathes it." Also commenting, Browning said it had been a great honour to lead ISPT and that ...

Co-founder departs Future Super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
One of the co-founders of environmentally friendly superannuation fund Future Super has departed after eight years. Adam Verwey, who founded Future Super with Simon Sheikh in 2014, has left the fund. "Adam is taking time out to take a break and travel ...

ClearView welcomes chief risk officer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2022
... Swanson. Reece said: "Initiatives to strengthen consumer protections and continuously improve systems and processes are front of mind at ClearView, and I look forward to supporting Simon and his team to help achieve the group's strategic priorities and ...