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ESG investors overreact to negative news

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
New research from the Monash Centre for Financial Studies reveals ethical investors who overreact to negative environmental, social and governance (ESG) news spur falls in share prices and are better to wait before making trade decisions. The study ...

Female access to ERS to widen gender super gap

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
... stand by and watch more generations face the same plight. It is important that we act now to ensure that women are at the centre of any post-COVID super or other economic recovery policy measures." The AIST and Women in Super have made a number of recommendations ...

Dealer group investment head departs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
The head of investment management for a dealer group has departed, establishing his own advisory. Julian Pitt has left Centrepoint Alliance after more than 13 years with the dealer group. Pitt was head of investment management and in the last year and ...

Centuria acquires industrial assets

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... said the assets add to its recent three acquisitions announced in early August, including a $416.7 million Telstra Data Centre. Centuria Industrial REIT portfolio manager Jesse Curtis said the acquisitions demonstrate the fund's focus on growth. "We ...

Calls for Rio chief to be sacked

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... sacred sites at Juukan Gorge by Rio Tinto has resulted in calls for the chief executive to be sacked. The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) said it was "appalled" at the internal board review of cultural heritage management by the ...

Cromwell sells SA asset at premium

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... in South Australia for $63.05 million; an 18.96% premium to the asset's book value. Cromwell has sold Rand Distribution Centre on behalf of its owner, Cromwell Property Trust (C12), with the sale expected to settle in mid-December. Cromwell head of retail ...

Dealer group eyes aggressive expansion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
Centrepoint Alliance has reported its annual revenue grew 11% as it plots an aggressive growth plan. Centrepoint said its plans for growth are to "aggressively pursue inorganic opportunities". The dealer group said 79 new financial advisers had joined ...

REITs better value than bonds, equities: LaSalle

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... given the level of uncertainty surrounding the pandemic and lockdowns, the measures were prudent." She pointed to data centre REITs and cell tower REITs as being key beneficiaries of the COVID-19 crisis, thanks to a substantial increase in both working ...

Financial services workers content with pandemic changes

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
New research shows that more than half of financial services employees agree that the industry has reacted positively to shifts in the industry as a result of the pandemic. The latest Work Different study from experience management software provider ...

Law firm slams insurer mental health policies

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
Slater and Gordon has criticised life insurers for proposing to dictate who can and can't access mental health treatment through their funding programs. Calls from the life insurance industry for regulatory freedom to allow life companies to be ...