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UniSuper's environmental option returns -16%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2024
... performer for the year. The high-risk option, which had about $1.8 billion invested at February end, invests in listed companies whose activities look to address current and emerging environmental issues and opportunities. At least 40% of their revenues ...

New mandates boost Clime FUM

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024
... in the quarter and adjusted for the sale of Madison. Its other products, the Clime All Cap Fund and the Clime Small Companies Fund returned 15.4% and 15.82% respectively. "The strong returns not only saw the group achieve performance fees in FY24 but ...

More than 11k businesses call in administrators

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2024
ASIC's annual insolvency data shows more than 11,000 companies entered external administration for the first time last financial year. While the figure is higher than previous peaks in 2011-12 and 2012-13, ASIC clarified that there are more businesses ...

IPO conversations 'sparking interest': Barrenjoey

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2024
... that one of the differentiating factors when comparing Australia to overseas markets is that, unlike in the US, local companies are required to provide forecasts, which can be less appealing for high growth companies. He said that "it's hard to put a ...

WAM calls to save in-person AGMs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2024
... the time and affirmed that in-person or hybrid meetings should be the "gold standard." "We believe that by allowing companies to hold such meetings (exclusively online AGMs), the government is eroding corporate accountability, transparency and governance ...

Maple-Brown Abbott sells to Antipodes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2024
... Under the deal, Maple-Brown Abbott's global listed infrastructure, Australian value equities, and Australian small companies investment teams will continue to operate autonomously under the Maple-Brown Abbott brand, but will now be joined by the ...

Sequoia chief reappointed, hunt for successor kicks off

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
... shareholders that Crole had transformed the underlying business over a five-year period from a "complex loss making group of companies to one that is growing profitably." Sweeney highlighted that during the period, shareholders had been rewarded with ...

ASIC to launch new criminal investigation team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
... recommendations. Chief among them was a recommendation to split the regulator into two separate bodies; one focused on companies and the other on financial services enforcement. ASIC conceded during the Inquiry that its 'very wide remit' impacts ...

NZSF returns 17%, smashes benchmarks

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2024
... the end of March with its $223.4 billion in FUM. This month, NZSF released its exclusion list, which blacklists 237 companies based in its Sustainable Finance Framework. The list includes several weapons manufacturers such as Elbit, Lockheed Martin ...

ASIC hits Melbourne adviser with travel ban

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2024
... outside Australia. The orders were sought as part of ASIC's investigation into King and the King Financial Group of companies. ASIC is currently investigating King for alleged financial misconduct in a network of companies and related trusts. ASIC applied ...