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FS Power50: Final days to nominate

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021
There is only two days left to get your nominations in for the 2021 FS Power50, celebrating the most influential financial advisers in Australia today. The FS Power50 recognises the 50 most influential financial advisers, as voted by Financial Standard ...

Ethical super could halve carbon footprint

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
Australians could halve household emissions across the country if their superannuation was invested in an ethical option, new calculations show. Australian Ethical found that every person in Australia changing to an ethical fund was equivalent to a ...

Economic recap: Week to July 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... progress toward these goals [employment and inflation] despite the resurgence of infections and "vaccination fatigue" in the country. It's still early days. But so far, the UK's 'Freedom Day' (July 19) is travelling well. Worldometer.com ...

Royce Investment Partners launches small-cap fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2021
... allocators and businesses with attractive reinvestment prospects. Royce is targeting returns that exceed the MSCI All Country World Small Cap Index in Australian dollars over three to five years. Managing director of Franklin Templeton Australia & New ...

Integrity Life, Will platform partner

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021
... experience with a price point to match," he said. "This combination has seen us grow to the number one Will platform in the country with thousands of happy customers. We believe, like Integrity, that the solution to consumer engagement in our products ...

Economic recap: Week to July 16

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2021
... concerns around the current virus outbreak and associated restrictions in NSW are not spilling over to the rest of the country." This could also be because Australia is facing the latest hurdle from a position of strength. The Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

UniSuper's O'Sullivan on what's next

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2021
... mergers. O'Sullivan arrived at UniSuper in 2013, after a career that started as a life insurance actuary in his native country of Canada. He moved to Melbourne in 1990 for a consulting job with Towers Perrin. Later he worked as an actuary for other ...

Top economist Don Stammer to fund UNE scholarship

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
Before he was an investment banker and economist with an enviable career spanning more than half a century, Don Stammer was just a 'Vacy boy' trying to beat the odds. He pays it forward this year with a university scholarship program, held in ...

Demand soars for global equities ETFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
... an efficient way for investors to gain access to global investment opportunities, while at the same time reducing home country bias and further diversifying portfolios. Some 41% of Vanguard's total ETF inflows came from ETFs in the first half of ...

Economic recap: Week to July 9

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
At its July 6 meeting, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept the cash rate unchanged at 0.1% and retained the April 2024 bond as "the bond for the yield target" - against speculation that it would roll this over to the November 2024 bond. At the ...