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Future Fund boosts alternatives assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... established in 2006 to assist the Government to meet its unfunded superannuation liabilities and to fund nation-building projects.

Westpac admits it didn't take FoFA seriously

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... half of its ATMs are now smart ATMs, up from just a quarter five years ago. More than 70% of all electricity generation projects that the bank financed in 2018 were renewables including hydro. This is a gain of 6% over the previous year.

Banks must reshape to survive compliance and technology crunches

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... remediation costs translated into higher cost-to-income ratios, "the majors' investment spend in risk and compliance projects is also up strongly and in most cases investments on growth initiatives has decreased in a relative sense." "If this redirection ...

Former Macquarie Capital head launches fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... fund manager that invests in profitable and sustainable ways. Our expert teams are deploying capital toward clean-energy projects; social infrastructure; and to support the growth of companies that meet today's social and economic needs," Brownjohn ...

BlackRock strengthens real assets team

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... real assets team. It currently has $5 billion of equity assets under management spread across 250 solar and wind farm projects globally. Of this, 40 projects are based in APAC countries of Australia, Japan and Taiwan. "Power generation in Asia Pacific ...

CBA ramps up blockchain

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
Commonwealth Bank is close to completing more blockchain projects, after it delivered the world's first blockchain bond with World Bank in August. Speaking at SIBOS, Sophie Gilder who is CBA's head of experimentation and commercialisation for ...

Diversity is the answer to war for talent

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... there's still more research to be done on how that future of work is going to look like. "I'm currently working on two projects. One is on young women (16-40 year olds) and the future of work. What do they think is going on in terms of equality ...

Financial services employment to boom

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
... increase in the number of risk and compliance roles on offer in the financial services sector. "Large-scale remediation projects are underway within many banks and financial services organisations and these will continue during 2018. Consequently, demand ...

Diversification mandates lead the way: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... seeing are the preference for liquid solutions, particularly on the liquid alternatives side. If I look at most of the projects we've done, the liquidity timeframe has fallen to one month or better and risk premia fits that bill." Overall, the diversifying ...

Macquarie pledges $50m to anniversary

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... need. The commitment will see five non-profit organisations awarded $10 million each over a five-year period, funding projects globally that will have a lasting community benefit. The Macquarie Group Foundation will manage the program and select award ...