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Industry split on paid vaccine leave

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
... ClearView Wealth, Hume Bank, IAG and Westpac. Bendigo and Adelaide Bank is also taking the same four hours-only approach, though notes that staff were provided an additional 10 days' personal leave last year for COVID-19-related matters. Others have ...

Citi names head of research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
Citi has appointed a new head of research for Australia and New Zealand. Paul McTaggart takes the post effective immediately, responsible for leading the region's research advisory function and working closely with clients and investors. He will ...

Plenary hires team of seven from AMP Capital

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
... is still serving out their notice period at AMP Capital. Crafford, Brosnan and Lee will start at Plenary in July. Zhou though has already taken gardening leave, according to his LinkedIn. He will join Mizzi, Hunter and Livingstone in starting with Plenary ...

Chief economist update: It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
"It's raining men! Hallelujah! It's raining men!" -The Weather Girls Australian 'men' (and women) at work' that is. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS): "Employment increased by 115,000 people in May, following the 31,000 ...

Maine forces pension funds to dump fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
The state of Maine has become the first in the United States to pass legislation forcing its pension fund to divest fossil fuels. Last week, Maine passed bill LD99; an act to require the state to divest itself of assets invested in the fossil fuel industry. ...

HESTA managers improve on gender diversity

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... junior levels." In listed managers, women's share of the investment roles thinned out as they moved up the ranks -- though there were small signs of improvement. For example, women working as investment analysts accounted for 23% of the employees ...

State Super rejigs defensives

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
... level of returns, a distribution component and liquidity. "March 2020 was a really good example. Structured products - even though they are AAA rated were hard to liquidate at a reasonable price. It doesn't mean we rule them out, we just allocate ...

IFM adds to board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
The $150 billion fund manager has added an independent director, in its second board appointment based in North America. Theresa Whitmarsh is an executive director at Washington State Investment Board (WSIB) which manages retirement plans and funds ...

IOOF completes merger, appoints executives

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... of them were so quick out of the blocks that we didn't really get a chance to talk to them. In the self-employed space, though, it's about partnership and you have to respect people's ability to choose who best suits them," he said. "We weren't arrogant ...

PEXA to IPO in June

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
Link Group has announced that digital property settlement platform PEXA will list on the ASX towards the end of June after fielding offers from private equity firms. Link has signed an underwriting agreement for the initial public offering of PEXA ...