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Investors going in blind: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
Australians are entering the stockmarket guided only by word of mouth, independent research and social media posts, new research shows. Online trading platform eToro surveyed over 1000 Australian investors to find out where they are getting their advice ...

ETF industry approaches $100bn

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
As new investors turned to exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to cash in on the market volatility and consequent recovery in 2020, the industry reaped the benefits breaking several records, new research shows. The BetaShares Australian ETF Review for year ...

Australian banks among most fined

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... Bank. One was $57.5 million in the fees for no service scandal and the second was $15 million for credit law breaches. Israel was in third place, although just one fine was handed down to Israeli banks last year. That fine was US$902.5 million, handed ...

QIC hires investment director

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... head Peter Siapikoudis as a portfolio manager of its QIC Infrastructure Portfolio, which was previously managed by Ross Israel and Matina Papathanasiou; and Melissa Schulz as a general manager, sustainability to its global real estate executive committee. ...

Pengana launches new Israel equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... fund manager to launch a new tech-focused fund that invests in 30 stocks for local wholesale investors. The Pengana Alpha Israel Fund is managed by Alpha LTI, an equities boutique founded in 2005 that currently manages about $350 million. It is a long-only ...

QIC hires former Frontier infrastructure head

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
QIC has named a new portfolio manager for its $1.8 billion core infrastructure fund, previously managed by Ross Israel and Matina Papathanasiou. Peter Siapikoudis will manage the QIC Infrastructure Portfolio (QIP). Siapikoudis was most recently a managing ...

Super needs improvement: Report card

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... of 39 countries in its annual study, trailing behind the Netherlands and Denmark, which received high distinctions, and Israel, which placed third. Australia's score decreased from 75.3 in 2019 to 74.2 this year, earning an overall B grade, meaning ...

Australia among strongest on governance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... countries with both strong practices and strong rules. Australia's peers in this group were Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, the US and UK. The 10 governance factors Calvert looked at included accounting ...

Westpac puts Australia on bad banking leaderboard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
Global banks have paid out around US$10.5 billion in fines so far this year, with Westpac taking out third place thanks to the AUSTRAC scandal. The research, provided by Finbold, listed the top 10 biggest fines paid by global banks with US institutions ...

COVID-19 propels advisers, incumbents into the future

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
New global research reveals the COVID-19 pandemic has squeezed years of digital transformation into less than two months, but finds that partnerships, innovation and agility will be key for both advisers and institutions to survive and thrive going ...