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DIY investors embrace Meta Platforms

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 14 JAN 2022
With big new investments in data centers, servers, and network infrastructures, Meta Platforms' popularity with global DIY investors soared in the fourth quarter of 2021. Data from global investment platform eToro shows that Meta rocketed from 13th ...

Sustainability will send some broke: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
Efforts to become more sustainable will challenge many firms and perhaps even bankrupt some, experts from MFS Investment Management have noted. In a new research note, MFS global investment strategist Robert Almeida and research analyst Robert Wilson ...

What you read in 2021

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
In another year of lockdowns and uncertainty, Financial Standard 's most read stories show all eyes were on the changing nature of the superannuation sector. Industry consolidation and the Your Future, Your Super performance test underscore the ...

Crestone to be acquired by LGT Group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021
Crestone Wealth Management is set to be acquired by one of the world's largest privately owned wealth managers, LGT Group. Under the agreement, LGT Group will acquire 100% of Crestone for $475 million. "The proposed transaction would enable Crestone ...

Labor pledges calm in superannuation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021
Labor promises that superannuation will not be hotly contested in the upcoming federal election, vowing that if it comes to power in 2022 it will not introduce major changes. Shadow minister Stephen Jones pledged more stability and less uncertainty ...

Team turnover sees AMP Capital funds downgraded

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
AMP Capital has had two multi-sector funds downgraded from neutral to negative by Morningstar, with the research house citing staff turnover as the reason for the downgrades. The AMP Capital Core Retirement Fund and AMP Capital Multi-Asset fund were ...

Economic recap: Week to December 10

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021
As it was in 2020, so it is in 2021. Yes Virginia, I don't believe it too until... I re-read my first scribbles on this site at the beginning of 2021. On January 12 this year, I wrote: "Fiscal and monetary authorities prompt and aggressive counter-cycle ...

Super funds lambasted over nuclear holdings

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
New research from the Australia Institute and Quit Nukes shows most major Australian superannuation funds still have holdings in nuclear weapons. Nearly one year since the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) came into force (January ...

ASIC sues ANZ in final civil RC case

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
The big four bank is being sued by the regulator for failing to provide some of the benefits promised to customers who hold offset transaction accounts or 'Breakfree' packages in conduct dating back more than two decades. In what is the last ...

Yarra Capital bolsters investment team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2021
Yarra Capital Management has boosted its investment team with two new hires and two senior promotions. Rhys Corry will join Yarra as an investment manager in the fixed income team, and Joshua Ginges will join as an analyst in the Yarra Australian equities ...