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American manager eyes local market

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... adaptive strategies that engage during equity market sell-offs and seek to deliver strong positive returns in more normal times," Hall said. Brookvine offers fund managers services including fundraising, investor relations, fund administration, advisory ...

Risk but no reward in institutional equities portfolios

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... returns at active fees. "Perhaps the most startling discovery to us was the fact that, on average, portfolios had nearly two times the amount of uncompensated risk versus compensated risk," Northern Trust Asset Management head of quantitative strategies ...

ASX200 advance climate targets

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... benchmark for companies' reporting in high-risk sectors, with 60 ASX200 companies adopting the framework, more than five times the amount in 2017. This includes 83% of ASX200 energy companies, up from 36% in 2018, 50% of utilities up from 25%, 83% of ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 returns to Europe with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... increase in infections is such that the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that death rates could be four to five times more by January 2021 than they were in April this year. European governments have, so far, resisted re-imposing national lockdowns. ...

Through good and bad: Advisers add value

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... required." Finally, the report says expertise is priceless, providing perspective and creating efficiencies - particularly in times of significant change. "Expert knowledge is invaluable through periods of change. Whether personal circumstances change ...

Keep spending and investing: Lowe

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... saving," Lowe said. "Normally in a recession, income falls and many people draw on their savings to get through the hard times. But in the June quarter, when fears about the pandemic were at their peak, the household saving rate surged to 20%, the highest ...

State Street targets insurance outsourcing

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... 10.7% of the $3.75 trillion custodian market. It was recently fined $1.25 million by AUSTRAC for allegedly breaching 99 times its obligation to report international transfers to the agency under Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing l ...

Chief economist update: Get shorty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... generated around 466 billion yuan ($68.6 billion) in tourism revenue during the holiday period." (CNBC) While the Financial Times report that this is well below 2019's total of 782 million trips, it's still the stuff that other nations in lockdown ...

Leadership spills spell new era: RIAA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... people, society and the environment alongside financial performance and that this will help them better navigate turbulent times, avoid big risks and capture more opportunities.

AUSTRAC releases guidance on wildlife trafficking

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... reptiles the most trafficked animal in Australia. International black-market prices for Australian reptiles can be more than 28 times the price of domestic native lizards, AUSTRAC said, selling for between $1000 and $20,000. AUSTRAC's chief executive ...