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AGL abandons demerger, leadership resigns

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2022
... the energy provider into two separate businesses - AGL Australia (retail business) and Accel Energy (coal and gas-fired power plants.) The decision was made due to a lack of confidence that a 75% approval would be gained when it went to vote on June ...

Super funds to reach $1tn by 2040: KPMG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2022
A recently released KPMG Super Insights report shows Australia could have at least two super funds with over $1 trillion in assets in the next 20 years. KPMG insights suggest AustralianSuper and the Australian Retirement Trust (ART) will dominate the ...

BetaShares to launch new sustainable ETFs

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2022
The new ETFs will offer investors exposure to solar energy and uranium, both of which are forecast to benefit from the ongoing global energy transition. The new funds will be the first ETFs in Australia to offer dedicated exposure to these sectors. ...

Index investing of greater benefit: Vanguard

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... research finds that an investment portfolio with a core indexed strategy that combines the upside of low costs with the power of compounding is best placed to maximise net returns for most investors over the long run." However, Zorina noted that this ...

Goldman Sachs strengthens leveraged finance team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022
... arrived there from Barclays Capital's leveraged finance business, where he focused on natural resources, chemicals, and power. Earlier in his career, he spent five years at UBS as a private client group associate before becoming a municipal portfolio ...

HESTA opposes AGL demerger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022
... Paris-aligned targets, nor manage the risk of stranded assets," HESTA said. It said a stand-alone company owning AGL's coal-fired power plants risks making it more difficult for the nation to transition to a low-carbon future. "We believe this company ...

Australian dividends shatter pre-pandemic records: Janus Henderson

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2022
Australian global dividends have completed their pandemic recovery and have eclipsed the previous 12-month record set in September 2019 by $6.7 billion. The latest Janus Henderson global dividend index shows that Australian dividends totalled $97.9 ...

VanEck carbon credits ETF set to hit ASX

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2022
... diversify the market with responsible investing options comes after election results. "With the new Labor government now in power and climate change front and centre, time will tell if climate policy will be more ambitious in mitigating greenhouse gas ...

No place for crypto in insto portfolios: PGIM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
... the bitcoin blockchain is equivalent to two million transactions on the Visa network, or roughly the same energy needed to power the average American home for over two months," PGIM said. "From a governance perspective, the anonymity and difficulty in ...

Tesla axed from the S&P 500 ESG index

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022
Tesla has been booted from the S&P 500 ESG index due to its low S&P Dow Jones Indices (DJI) ESG score. In an S&P DJI ideology blog, North American head of ESG indices Margaret Dorn said that Tesla had fallen into the bottom 25% of its industry group ...