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Pendal appoints impact investment team

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
Pendal has appointed an impact investment team tasked with establishing a global equity impact strategy as part of the business' ESG research team, Regnan. Led by Tim Crockford, formerly the head of the Hermes Impact Opportunities Equity Fund, and ...

BT Super announces new admin fees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2019
... MySuper and BT Super choice customers will be reduced from 1 July 2020 from 0.45% to 0.28%. At the same time, the flat dollar fee will be increased from $78 per annum to $108 per annum. Between 1 April 2020 and 30 June 2020 MySuper customers will receive ...

Use 401k to pay student debts: US senator

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
US Senator Rand Paul has introduced a radical new plan to allow people to pay off student loan debt using their retirement savings. The HELPER Act is, according to Paul, designed to help Americans pay off student loan debt more quickly and save more ...

Bridgewater loses another chief

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... stepping down from her role, leaving her counterpart and co-chief executive David McCormick to lead the US$160 billion dollar firm. Since billionaire founder and co-chair Ray Dalio ceded his position as top dog at the firm in 2011, five people have held ...

Chief economist update: The Grinch steals Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... cut interest rates here by more than the bank's predicted single 25 bps reduction next year to keep the Australian dollar from appreciating versus the greenback. RBA Governor Lowe has already stated that 0.25% is the lowest the official cash rate ...

China still positive despite unrest

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... project a diminishing growth gap between emerging and developed markets, which should support EM currencies versus the US dollar for a while," Buchet says. "Considering the relative value between developed and emerging markets, what strikes us is that ...

Chief economist update: Bah humbug

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... Federal.........Reserve should likewise act so that countries, of which there are many, no longer take advantage of our strong dollar by further devaluing their currencies. This makes it very hard for our manufactures & farmers to fairly export their ...

First green bond ETF listed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
BetaShares has listed the first Diversified Bond ETF in Australia with a significant allocation to green bonds. The Sustainability Leaders Diversified Bond ETF - Currency Hedged (GBND) will track an index of green bonds issued by companies and governments ...

How it can all go wrong

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
In the most-talked about session on the FPA Congress program, former Queensland adviser James Cribb sat down with his lawyer Rhett Das to explain how he came to be banned and what he wishes he'd done differently. In July last year, Cribb was banned ...

How much a self-licensee spends on compliance

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
A Melbourne-based self-licensed financial planner has shared how much her practice spends on compliance for every $100 of its revenue. Speaking at the FPA Congress, Angela Martyn of Personal Financial Services said $4.50 for every $100 of revenue is ...