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Spaceship hits $1bn in total assets

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2021
... they are increasingly asking more questions about their superannuation, holding their providers to account and checking whether it is invested appropriately, based on their appetite for risk." Spaceship's Universe Portfolio returned 46.18% in the year ...

Advice association shutters

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2021
... merge. "It did not go anywhere as some of the people in control lacked integrity and we backed away," he said. "We doubted whether they had many actual fee-paying members, their initial push was an offer of 'free' membership. As we all know ...

Greenwashing scrutiny needed: Evergreen

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2021
... securities or interests in funds," Armour said. "Accordingly, we encourage boards to look out for any greenwashing - and to ask whether their company's disclosure around environmental risks and opportunities or their funds promotion of ESG-focused investment ...

Get your ducks in a row before you think of an IPO

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
... would no doubt be serious questions being asked about the risk management at the company. This could in turn influence whether a listing has a chance of being successful," he said. However, IPO investors should not expect listing financials to quantify ...

Companies failing harassment victims: ACSI

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
... companies should conduct de-identified, anonymous surveys. These surveys should ask about specific harassment behaviours and whether workers have encountered them, rather than asking about sexual harassment broadly, as some people may not be clear on ...

Alphinity launches new fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
... related to ESG issues or alignment with the SDGs the Sustainable Compliance Committee assesses the matter and determines whether Alphinity can support the company's activities. "The committee includes Elaine Prior, an award-winning ESG pioneer and former ...

Modern slavery obligations fall by the wayside: ACSI

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2021
... what happens in practice across both their operations and supply chains," she said. The next 12 months will determine whether the act is driving concrete action and continuous effective "box-ticking compliance exercise". "Investors and other stakeholders ...

Zenith introduces ESG classification

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
... investor attitudes change and regulations increase, Higgins said, pointing to ASIC's review which is aiming to establish whether funds focusing on ESG considerations are aligning with the way they're being sold.

Raiz rolls out SMSF functionality

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021
... between portfolios, and no fee for automatic rebalancing. Raiz is now reaching out to financial advisers, asking them whether they think its products are in the best interests of clients and should be on approved product lists. Meanwhile, the latest ...

Active Super returns 23%

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... of its assets away from defensives to equities during the year, which contributed to the returns. "We are now watching whether at some point we might need to take that tilt off, if we were really certain that there's going to be more volatility coming," ...