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Asset manager gives ESG data to BNY subsidiary

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... source, allowing Eagle clients to meet demand for ESG investing. S-Ray allows investors to monitor the sustainability performance of about 7000 of the largest corporations across the globe, leveraging machine learning to systematically combine more than ...

Platform providers crack S&P/ASX 300

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2018
... point-of-service finance company AfterPay Touch, alongside Inghams Group and Appen. The S&P/ASX indices measure the performance of actively-traded and highly liquid securities that are among the largest securities listed on the ASX by float-adjusted ...

ETFs increasingly used to trade risk

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
... institutional sales Katie Petering busted several myths frequently associated with ETFs. Petering demonstrated the performance of ETFs during stressed markets, highlighting the usefulness of ETFs as a price discovery tool, while also quashing the myth ...

ACDC to power new battery ETF

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
... Battery Technology and Lithium ETF is the latest addition to ETF Securities' Future Present range. It tracks the performance of battery technology stocks - 24 in total - and four lithium producers, all under the ticker code ACDC. Benchmarked against ...

Retail super funds in hot water: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... provisions of the Corporations Act via the distribution agreement; and Engaging in misconduct by not benchmarking the performance of CFSGAM and CommInsure as providers of group insurance and investment management services respectively and retaining their ...

Foreign owners take over life insurance: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... Hoa Bui said: "From a channel perspective it remains to be seen whether Australia will finally see an improved performance of the bancassurance channel on the back of recent landmark third party bank-insurer strategic alliances." Over the last five years ...

Entertainment spend retains members: Hostplus

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
... one of the best-performing funds, members leave their money with Hostplus "to take advantage of the investment performance of the fund or the insurance features of the fund." From 1 July 2016 to 2018, funds under management for the indexed balanced option ...

Commitment to ethical investing booms

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
... to 31 December 2017, the 2018 Australian Responsible Investment Benchmark Report focused on the size, growth and performance of the Australian responsible investment market and analysed the investment strategies of 112 asset managers. At a broad level ...

MLC MySuper investment budget was tight-fisted: Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
... portfolio manager and asset consultant that its current investment fee budget wasn't adequate to boost the performance of its lagging MLC MySuper product, the Royal Commission heard. Resuming former NULIS chair Nicole Smith's questioning on day ...

Are SMSF investors too conservative?

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
... report said. The Productivity Commission recently reported that SMSFs have broadly tracked the long-term investment performance of APRA-regulated funds, on average. However, smaller SMSFs have delivered materially lower returns on average than larger ...