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First Sentier farewells senior portfolio manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
First Sentier Investors' high-profile small companies team has lost one of its longest-serving members. The small and mid-cap fund group led by Dawn Kanelleas has farewelled senior portfolio manager Pavlos Totsis. Totsis - along with Kanelleas and ...

Financial services experiencing 'workforce transformation'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
... paper suggested that COVD-induced lockdowns are somewhat responsible for these communication and soft skill issues. "As companies transitioned to digital environments away from the physical one, technology provided a different means to engage teams and ...

CareSuper returns 8.54% for default members

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
... shares, which boosted its performance by "around 20%." Half of the gains were funnelled through a handful of US technology companies and AI. The overseas shares option amassed an annual return of 16.37%. Further, CareSuper highlighted decent results ...

What Yarra Capital is buying in the dip

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
... significant discounts to asset backing, despite valuations stabilising, and in some cases once again expanding. Industrial companies with good business models and strong management teams which have been sold off on cyclical concern. High-quality growth ...

Australia sees jump in zombie companies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
A new study from global consulting firm Kearney revealed the number of zombie companies in Australia increased 13.6% in the past year. Zombie companies - those which don't produce enough profits to cover debt obligations - now account for 5.8% of ...

Asset management brand power a 'critical differentiator': ISS

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
... Surveyed advisers said that their clients "need to have trust and comfort in a brand," and they turn to "well-established companies with sterling reputation," when asked why they felt asset managers' brands were important. While client trust is important ...

Macquarie AM splurges on data centre

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
... Hanam IDC to install, maintain, and operate servers on their own expense. MAM invests in several digital infrastructure companies. This includes AirTrunk, an Asia-Pacific data centre developer and operator with facilities, and Bersama Digital Infrastructure ...

Mercer Super cops landmark $11.3m greenwashing penalty

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024
... investment options offered in the Mercer Super Trust, of which Mercer is the trustee. The options promised to exclude companies involved in carbon intensive fossil fuels like thermal coal, alcohol production and gambling. They were promoted as suitable ...

The four Ds to watch in the decades to come: La Trobe

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
... drive some US$150 trillion in investment. Deglobalisation will also continue as a theme, he said, with countries and companies expected to continue onshoring critical industries. "Bringing things closer to home will drive a vast amount of spending over ...

ASIC proposes cash equity clearing and settlement rules

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2024
... look forward to engaging with industry on the proposed rules so the best outcome is achieved for the market, for listed companies and for investors and investment." Notably, ASIC and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) are co-regulators of licensed CS ...