Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 661 - 670 of 4899 results for "Environment"

Challenger Life books record annuity sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023
... Challenger managing director and chief executive Nick Hamilton said annuity sales are benefitting from a supportive market environment, rising demand for guaranteed lifetime income and a growing number of Australians entering retirement. During the period ...

Assembly launches second diversified fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023
... market dislocation and more opportune timing of new investments. "In response to the highly unpredictable financial environment since launching ADPF1 in 2019, AFM has developed a fairly unique investment approach which targets a mix of credit and equity ...

Franklin Templeton launches alternatives fund in Australia

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023
... of the portfolio, the fund is also well positioned to take advantage of the tailwinds from a higher interest rate environment. The fund will be managed by Franklin Templeton subsidiary K2 Advisors, which specialises in managing funds within the alternative ...

Equity Trustees combines super, trustee arms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... operations in the UK and Ireland, citing increased costs and pricing pressures associated with an intensifying regulatory environment and greater competition. EQT said it is considering all strategic options for the six-year-old business. As first reported ...

Australian Ethical unveils new moderate fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... "If you look back over the last decade, fixed income assets didn't offer significant returns to investors, but that environment has significantly changed over the last 12 months," Woods said. "Therefore, we think now's the right time to offer investors ...

Barwon snaps up $124m of healthcare assets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... see continued interest from domestic and international investors for the sector, despite the current interest rate environment. "As we had expected, we have seen a modest softening of cap rates in the healthcare sector, but healthcare's defensive ...

APIR reports surge in new financial products

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... Donohoe said. "We expect that the continued domestic and global challenges, including a rapidly changing interest rate environment and the recessionary threats, will drive further innovative responses and offer opportunities to product manufacturers," ...

High rates impacting REITs: Quay

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... and thereby future supply, is being impacted by construction cost inflation combined with a restrictive financing environment. "Nowhere is this dynamic more obvious in Australia right now than in the local residential market, which is now steadily rising ...

Active Super to face action over greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... fund." "Active Super represented on their website that they eliminated investments that posed too great a risk to the environment and the community, including tobacco manufacturing, oil tar sands and gambling," ASIC said. "Active Super also stated that ...

AMP provisions $50m in response to class action

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2023
... our underlying businesses continues to improve, with AMP Bank achieving disciplined mortgage growth in a competitive environment, the North platform significantly increasing inflows from independent financial advisers, Advice further reducing costs ...