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Facebook dropped from ESG index

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
Facebook has been dropped from the S&P 500 ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Index after a series of scandals brought the company's ethics into question. The S&P 500 ESG Index underwent its annual rebalance at the end of April and removed several ...

Chief economist update: Another rate cut on the cards

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
... hours." Decreasing hours worked implies lesser need for staff. But wait, there's more! The lead from the ANZ job ads series suggests further weakening in job creation in the coming months. There's also the Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer ...

FCA stokes intergenerational wealth debate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2019
... how the financial services industry should respond to the nation's shifting demographics. The discussion paper poses a series of questions designed to engender a nationwide conversation on how the FCA and the financial services industry should meet consumers' ...

Credit fund launches to wholesale investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... behalf of high-net-worth and institutional investors worth $600 million. It also offers the Moelis Australia Secured Loan Series, which manages a $180 million of loans secured by registered first mortgage loans over Australian real property. The fund ...

Chief economist update: June RBA rate cut not a sure bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2019
... rational expectations and rational financial market reactions to the latest labour market stats. The seasonally adjusted series shows the unemployment rate increased to 5.2% in April from 5.1% in the previous month; the under-employment rate rose to ...

No single solution for advice: CFA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
CFA Societies Australia believes Australia's financial advice industry needs a series of policy reforms and changes to rebuild trust. Together with the CFA Institute, CFA Societies Australia released policy recommendations in response to the Royal ...

Chief economist update: RBA refused to blink in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
... 1.2%. But if the RBA is hitching its stars on the strength of the labour market, the lead from the ANZ job advertisement series suggests that weakness lies ahead. Job ads have been contracting (in year-on-year terms) since January this year. This should ...

ESG enthusiasm booms post-Royal Commission

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... environmental and ethical social governance (ESG), according to Perennial portfolio manager Damian Cottier. Perennial surveyed a series of listed companies, asking about their ESG priorities and where the pressure to take up an ESG investing approach ...

Boutique fund house adds distribution lead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... the company after 14 years with Macquarie. He was most recently responsible for distributing the Macquarie Professional Series suite of global equity funds and hedge funds as national distribution manager and business development manager. Prior to his ...

Chief economist update: RBA May cut, May not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... December quarter to be 2.3 per cent higher over 2018." Employment growth remains strong... but the lead from the ANZ job ads series indicates weakness going forward. "The adjustment in established housing markets is continuing, after the earlier large ...