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Rest climate change trial delayed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... risk in 2019 were requested by McVeigh. Stress testing, assessing the potential impact of scenarios on a portfolio, is just one element of the information McVeigh wants his super fund to provide around its approach to climate change. Last year, McVeigh ...

Chief economist update: Don't fight the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... expect the fed funds rate to remain at 0-0.25% this year and in 2021 and 15 "participants" (two foresee higher interest rates, one at 0.375% and 1.125%) in 2022. This is understandable given the Fed's latest projections: "The Fed expects US real ...

UBS Australia launches new CBRE fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... securities in December 2018 when the company also offloaded its in-house equities teams. UBS has since exited ETFs, and houses one of the highest-regarded fixed income teams in Australia. "What we have been finding in the last couple of years in talking ...

BetaShares to list hedged versions of global stocks ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... Standard. "In the last 10 years, the story has been the depreciation of the Australian dollar to the US dollar...and it has been a one way journey for a very long time so people liked to invest unhedged," he said. "It's very hard to read the currency ...

Bad news for BDMs despite industry-wide uptick

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... business development professionals," McGilton said. "We have also observed limited redundancy due to structural changes, notably one major super fund merger." Roughly one quarter of the financial services businesses surveyed actually said COVID-19 had ...

ASIC mainly concerned with media releases: Lawyer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... emails!) where they have asked licensees to 'choose' or 'negotiate' their outcome, but on the condition that the outcome is one on which ASIC can issue a media release." ASIC's media releases name financial advisers who are banned from the industry and ...

Report reveals superficiality of ESG pledges

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... assets, voted on 686 environmental, social and governance (ESG) shareholder proposals. The report's authors propose that one way to ensure funds' voting better aligns with their public claims would be to mandate that proxy voting records be public ...

Iress opens retail capital raise

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
Financial services software company Iress has opened up a capital raise for eligible shareholders, as it moves to raise a further $20 million to help partly fund its proposed acquisition of OneVue. It comes following the completion of the company's ...

No slowing ERS applications

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... only made payments within five business days 33% of the time. Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement fund remains one of the worst offenders, making the five day limit 40.7% of the time and within 10 days 23% of the time. Other stragglers ...

Life insurance activity rises: MetLife

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... the impact of COVID-19 on personal finances continues to be felt, according to MetLife. The new research from MetLife found one in four Australians, or 28%, have undertaken some form of activity with regard to life insurance since the outbreak of COVID-19. ...