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Fund managers' ESG beef

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... risks associated with meat and dairy either - rather, the pandemic has highlighted another risk factor. The mainstream theory on the origin of COVID-19 is that it was spread via a wet market in the Chinese city of Wuhan originally. FAIRR found that 73% ...

Masters of Business and Empathy aims to improve on MBA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
... purpose-driven," Havea said. "Value can be created without investing in extractive industries. What's presented in the MBE is not theory, it is evidence based and a curriculum led by a faculty of change makers who are influencing this shift." Enrolments ...

ASIC wealth director nabs promotion

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... responsible for teaching postgraduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of financial services regulation and regulatory theory. During this time, Bird also worked as a consultant to Bapepam-LK, the Indonesian capital market and non-bank financial ...

Super fund overhauls performance on red rating

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... protecting capital. It was designed to try and perform better in downturns as opposed to outperform gross markets. The theory was to protect the capital and take gains where we get them. We've reviewed that and adjusted it slightly, going forward," ...

Chief economist update: Australia on top despite recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... Eyes' song - remains "Top of the list, King of the hill, A number one..." It may not be Einstein's "relativity theory" or Frank Sinatra's New York, New York but Australia's doing better relative to our peers. Comparing apples with apples ...

Official recession not that scary: Economists

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... "Economic activity improved over the second half of the June quarter as restrictions were eased nationally." As has been the theory thrown around by many, Aird believes had it not been for the second outbreak in Victoria and subsequent lockdowns, the ...

Is your CEO smart or just lucky?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... his research titled CEO Power and Luck: Impact of Stock Markets on Building Powerful CEOs. Al-Sabah said while economic theory predicts that boards filter out luck (defined by him as exogenous shocks to performance, such as market-wide conditions that ...

Asgard, Future Super shamed on ERS

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... he couldn't say whether APRA would take any real action against funds that do not perform. He also did not offer a theory as to why retail funds might be underperforming in ERS timelines compared to industry funds, when asked by Leigh. "It is still ...

Super withdrawals being misused

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
... to institute some "checks and balances" for the next round of early release payments, saying Illion's data supports the theory that the system may need to be more tightly controlled. Spending for those who accessed their super early increased, although ...

No golden ticket for super funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... it does not seem to be a reliable short-term equity buffer for when markets get choppy." Traditional, though contested, theory dictates that the performance of gold should have a negative correlation to the performance of equities. However, Williams ...