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HESTA announces award finalists

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... improving social and financial outcomes for women, preventing a phenomenal amount of waste from going to landfill and going above and beyond to improve health and wellbeing of people experiencing disadvantage." A judging panel will select the winners ...

Macquarie IM the nation's largest manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... climbed 27.2% year on year, while listed investment companies (LIC) contracted 2.2% year on year. Indexed investments surged above $500 billion after falling under this threshold in the previous two quarters. Accounting for foreign companies, State Street ...

Lack of diversity major business risk: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... as well as how management teams with a critical mass of racial, ethnic, and gender diversity are more likely to generate above-average profitability," Taraporevala said in the letter. "Likewise, companies that promote workforce diversity and inclusion ...

Platinum's lead PM for Asia fund departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... delivered 29.3% in 2020 (compared to 13.9% from the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Net Index in A$). On a two-year basis it is 6.8% above the benchmark, and 1.7% above it since inception in March 2003. For FY20, Platinum Asset Management reported total revenue ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine, the variant

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... the downside, but less skewed toward adverse outcomes than in the October WEO. The early signs of stabilisation discussed above could persist, leading to favorable dynamics between still-resilient consumer spending and improved business spending. "Additional ...

MySuper performance recovers, hits record high

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... by 0.8% in the 12 months to November. Fixed interest options underperformed while property options also failed to deliver above the benchmark. "Despite this systemic underperformance, some super funds deliver stellar returns. Vision Super has Australia's ...

New heatmap shames trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... breached the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 (SIS Act). Thirty-seven products assessed are performing at or above the heatmap investment benchmarks over six years; 27 of these underperformed by up to 75bps; and six products underperform ...

Cashwerkz appoints chair for Fund Income

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... resulting in an allocation of five million performance rights to Baylis which are to be converted once VWAP calculation above 45 cents is met. The company has also agreed to an extra five million rights if Fortlake raises $1 billion in FUM with the hurdle ...

Active manager winning streak short lived

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
... top-performing Aussie equity funds, just 11 consistently stayed in this bracket. REITs (18.8%) were the least persistent in staying above the fray, while bond funds (75%) tended to maintain top-quartile rankings. Over a five-year period to June 2020 ...

Investment scams most profitable

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... damaging with Australians losing a combined total of $9.4 million due to investment scams over the past month. This is 20% above the amount lost in October and almost three times the amount lost in August due to this type of scams. In the year to date ...