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MSCI launches UN SDG alignment tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020
... overstate and understate their commitments to particular SDGs, which could undermine efforts by institutional investors to advance sustainable development. "Investors pursuing an impact investing approach could find that portfolio companies claim to ...

Chief economist update: As luck would have it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020
"Australians all let us rejoice... in joyful strains then let us sing, Advance Australia Fair." It wasn't supposed to go this way. Given the re-imposition of lockdown in Melbourne and most Australian states "closed border" policy, financial markets ...

Female ASX 200 chiefs fall

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020
The number of female chief executives in the ASX 200 has fallen over the last two years to just 10, with a not-for-profit organisation urging that "we can, and must, do better". The Chief Executive Women ASX 200 Senior Executive Census is now in its ...

PEP acquires listed tech firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... for Citadel staff, as we believe there will be increased opportunities to develop new technologies with new partners and advance and grow their careers," he said. The cash price of $5.70 per share represents a premium of 51.4% against the three-month ...

SMSF claim over Dreamworld deaths hits snag

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
A self-managed super fund has had a request for more information from Ardent Leisure, the owner of Dreamworld, over the Thunder River Rapids deaths in 2016 thrown out. Colin Ingram and Judy Tolloch are lead applicants in a class action being brought ...

Australian Unity adds to leadership

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... experience coupled with his strong corporate finance background are invaluable skillsets for our business and investors as we advance our strategic growth ambitions in an uncertain environment," Pratt said. Goodwin was previously director at Macrovue ...

Milestone Group appoints APAC lead

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
The head of Asia Pacific for RBC Investor and Treasury Services has been appointed to lead Milestone Group's regional business... and Australia's recently consolidated super funds are in her sights. Industry veteran Marian Azer has nabbed a ...

Ardea IM announces research partnership

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... of Technology Sydney to create the program, which it hopes will foster "innovative and impactful academic research to advance knowledge in finance". The Ardea + UTS Academic Program will see the investment manager produce research projects in partnership ...

It's not a bird or a plane; it's a new trading platform

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
A new trading platform has launched today, set to help Aussie investors trade over 2500 shares, LICS, REITs and ETFs with as little as a $100 investment and a flat $5 brokerage fee. Superhero, which its co-founder and chief executive John Winters says ...

Technology can ease adviser red tape: Academic

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... advice has a fiduciary characteristic, she said, meaning that advisers have the responsibility to make judgements that will advance clients' interest - and what regulators should focus on. When it comes to tackling the question if the advice industry ...