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T. Rowe Price hires ETF consultant

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... billion global equities fund is among the top performers in the category with the three-year returns of 20.7% p.a. to January end compared to the median manager's return of 9.1% p.a. over the period, according to Rainmaker data. An Australian spokesperson ...

Chief economist update: Confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... retail" (NAB survey). In addition, the latest survey showed business conditions increased to a reading of +15 from +9 in January, "with trading, profitability and employment conditions all marking solid improvements. Conditions remain very strong in ...

Court makes orders in ASIC versus TAL

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... against TAL, which stems from a Royal Commission case study. The matter relates to a TAL income protection customer, who in January 2014 made a claim on her policy after being diagnosed with cervical cancer. TAL voided her policy, saying she had failed ...

ASIC pursues criminal charges in super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... criminal penalties resulting from breaches of the Corporations Act or ASIC Act. The ban will now come into effect from January 2022. Until then it is only breaches under the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act, or SIS Act, that cannot be paid for ...

AMP Capital Ethical Leaders dropped by another super fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... Legalsuper and ESSSuper axed AMP Capital Ethical Leaders as the sole manager for their ethical/ESG investment options. In January 2021, LGIAsuper did the same. All three funds awarded mandates to Pendal instead.

AMP Capital severs ties with global equities unit

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2021
... markets businesses that include equity, infrastructure debt and real estate. GCF grew to about $158.9 million at the end of January 2021, returning 19.6% over one year and 25.5% p.a. since inception date of 5 November 2018. It aims to deliver 10% p.a. ...

ASIC takes Statewide Super to court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
... team, including the chief executive and chief risk officer, apparently first became aware of the issues with Acurity in January 2017. A breach report lodged by Statewide with ASIC in September 2019 identified the issue impacting 12,500 members which ...

Venture capital firm in data breach

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
... General, Sequoia Capital wrote how it discovered that an unauthorised third party had gained remote access, around 20 January 2021, to one employee's email mailbox "with the apparent aim of conducting a wire diversion scam". "The unauthorised access ...

Janus Henderson strengthens institutional team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
... appointments come after Janus Henderson appointed Greg Clarke to the newly created role of director, institutional sales in January. In the role, Clarke will act as a link between the Australian institutional business, marketing, and investments divisions ...

VanEck launches new ETFs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
... CLNE, which will track the S&P Global Clean Energy Index, which has delivered a one-year total return of 116% as of 29 January 2021. "The demand for infinite clean, green, renewable energy and the inevitable transition away from scarce fossil fuels is ...