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BlackRock lists three ESG ETFs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
sustainability focus. The three funds are the iShares Core MSCI Australia ESG Leaders ETF (IESG), iShares Core MSCI World Ex Australia ESG Leaders ETF (IWLD) and iShares Core MSCI World ex Australia ESG Leaders (AUD Hedged) ETF (IHWL). IESG seeks to ...

Former Hillross adviser pleads guilty

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
Wael Kourieh, who was an authorised representative of Hillross between 2010 and 2016, has plead guilty to false document charges following an ASIC investigation. Kourieh pleaded guilty to one count of making false documents and one count of using false ...

Insurers dodging Royal Commission reform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
Last week, the federal government announced exemptions for the insurance industry in relation to Royal Commission reforms. According to the Consumer Action Law Centre, these exemptions allow the insurance industry to side-step the Royal Commission recommendations ...

OnePath to remediate over pressure selling

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
OnePath Life is repaying customers to the tune of $35 million due to poor telephone sales practices. Following an ASIC intervention and action, OnePath was found to have sold life insurance over the phone between 2010 and 2016 using pressure selling ...

SelfWealth to add crypto trading

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
SelfWealth is responding to the booming interest in cryptocurrency investing by adding a crypto exchange to its platform. SelfWealth chief executive Cath Whitaker said retail investors would be able to buy and sell popular cryptocurrencies in real-time ...

Angus Benbow leaves finance for fitness

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
Former Centrepoint Alliance chief executive Angus Benbow has taken up a leadership role with mixed-martial arts gym program Wimp2Warrior. Benbow announced he will be co-chief executive of Wimp2Warrior alongside its founder Nick Langton. "An exciting ...

Significant drop in charitable giving

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
According to the inaugural JBWere NAB Charitable Giving Index, Australians are giving less - possibly due to the pandemic. The dramatic fall in giving led to an overall decrease in donations by 16% in the six months to December 2020, taking giving back ...

BNY Mellon acquires Milestone

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
BNY Mellon will acquire Milestone Group, a funds management technology provider. The deal comes just over a year after the two companies formed an alliance to create a suite of oversight and contingent net asset value (NAV) services for asset managers ...

Aware questioned on bonuses

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021
The $130 billion industry fund Aware Super was grilled on the bonuses it pays executives and how it justifies them. The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics asked Aware chief executive Deeanne Stewart and chief investment officer ...

Funds grilled despite record returns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021
AustralianSuper and Cbus faced an extremely hostile questioning from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, which at times devolved to committee members yelling over one another. AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk and Cbus ...