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Ironbark to wind up emerging markets fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Ironbark Asset Management has terminated an emerging markets small caps fund, after the underlying manager decided to close. The Ironbark Copper Rock Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund aimed to beat the MSCI Emerging Markets Small Cap Index (in AUD) ...

T. Rowe Price recruits analysts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
T. Rowe Price has hired two Sydney-based analysts to strengthen its Australian equities capability and client support. Nick Vidale joins as an investment analyst from Perpetual where he was an equity analyst for over three years. Vidale is responsible ...

RC recommendations closer to legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
A slew of regulation recommended by the Hayne Royal Commission to tighten the reigns in the superannuation industry will come into force with the introduction of a new bill. Introduced in Parliament on November 12, the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne ...

Aware Super finds airport returns despite COVID-19

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Aware Super's investment in Bankstown Airport, in western Sydney, has proved resilient through COVID-19 - thanks in part to an investment in an air wing for NSW Police. Earlier this month, NSW Police opened its aviation support branch - also known as ...

Raiz appoints new chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Raiz Invest has announced the appointment of a new chair with a background in digital marketing focusing on growth companies. Kevin Moore is set to take the position of chair and non-executive director. He is a digital market specialist with a long ...

ESG push not going anywhere

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Close to 90% of investors globally are asking their fund manager for environmental, social and governance (ESG) products, according to the 2020 EY Global Alternative Fund Survey. According to the survey, allocators are increasingly focused on ESG products ...

Chief economist update: We're not there yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
"Curb your enthusiasm" was the overriding message from the world's top three central bankers at the annual ECB Forum on Central Banking 2020, held online on November 11-12. The head honchos of the US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and the ...

APRA eases hard caps in revamped executive pay

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
A new draft of APRA's remuneration guidelines has scrapped its original plan to cap financial measures' contribution to executives' variable remuneration at 50%. Instead the boards will be able to assign a "material weight" to how much of ...

Deutsche Bank expands Australian operations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
Deutsche Bank has launched a cash management business in Australia, adding 14 new staff including a head of cash product. In what the bank is describing as "a terrific boost for local employees", the new Australian business marks the 14 th in Asia Pacific ...

Asset managers want action on modern-day slavery

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
Asset management heavyweights are urging the nation's top 100 companies to take modern-day slavery and labour exploitation seriously by lifting the hood on their supply chains. The Investors Against Slavery and Trafficking (IAST) APAC, a newly-formed ...