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Fink warns of "slow rolling crisis"

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023
... US banking system will place greater importance on the role of capital markets in financing, adding that there could be a third domino to fall in liquidity mismatches. "Years of lower rates had the effect of driving some asset owners to increase their ...

Wealth managers bracing for compensation claims

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2023
A rise in compensation claims from clients is expected over failure to understand risk suitability and will lead to tougher regulation, research suggests. New research from Oxford Risk revealed 58% of wealth managers, who collectively manage assets ...

Rising interest rates tank life insurer performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2023
... to hold the lion's share of the market at 33% of nearly $6 billion, followed by AIA, which holds 18% at $3.3 billion. The third largest player, Zurich, owns 14% of the market saw a 6% year on year increase in inflows to finish $2.5 billion at the end ...

Court fines ANZ for dodgy introducer program

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2023
... consumer credit protection laws. The Federal Court found that the bank's Home Loan Introducer Program enabled unlicensed third parties to refer customers to ANZ for loans. This included cleaners and real estate agents who referred customers to ANZ in ...

First Super awards ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2023
... controversies in the area of governance and social factors and in particular labour rights," Watson noted. "They rely on third parties to provide controversy data. That gives us the feed that allows for the screening out. "What we end up with are companies ...

Gender lens approach wins: Steed

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2023
... investing." Elsewhere, Steed said she is particularly excited about the gender wealth transfer. She said: "Right now, around a third of global wealth is controlled by women, and expectations are that within 30 years the majority of global wealth will ...

Claimants tend to be younger women: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2023
... majority (77%) of women said the soaring cost of living was the dominant reason (compared with 57% men), while nearly a third (32%) of women are worried about funding their retirement (compared with 36% of men). Nearly the same number of men and women ...

Women-led super funds outperform over medium, long run

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
... women in this team is one of the easiest markers super fund members should look for." In 2021, Rainmaker research found one-third of leadership roles within super funds were held by women, being chair, trustee director, or chief executive. At that time ...

Centuria adds to glasshouse portfolio

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
... facility in New South Wales on behalf of its agriculture fund from an unnamed family office. The transaction is CAF's third off-market glasshouse acquisition in just over six months, taking the total size of its glasshouses under management to 74-hectares ...

AustralianSuper invests in build-to-rent-to-own affordable housing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
... first in the Assemble Futures pipeline to receive equity investment from AustralianSuper. The fund has also committed to a third Assemble Futures project, with 171 apartments at four Ballarat Street, Brunswick. Additionally, AustralianSuper has agreed ...