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Super Fierce targets gender wealth gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... through Super Fierce, $100 is donated to Fierce Impact. Super Fierce was founded by Trenna Probert, a former head of strategy, Asia Pacific for Macquarie Group. "There are many studies that have tried to calculate the superannuation retirement gap, and ...

Alpha females

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... containing 30 companies with a market cap above $5 billion - including 10 companies each from North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific (developed countries). To make it in this basket, companies need to have above average representation of women in leadership. ...

HSBC nabs State Street veteran

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2022
... Scholfield has made the jump to HSBC after almost 19 years at State Street, most recently as head of platform solutions for Asia Pacific. Scholfield has also served as a director on the Australian Custodial Services Association board in the past. In ...

EQT buys Stockland Retirement Living for $987m

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2022
... with significant experience in running industry leading retirement living villages," Gupta said. Ken Wong, EQT's head of Asia Pacific, infrastructure said that the fund is excited about partnering with Stockland and supporting its ability to continue ...

Mirae to launch local ETF suite

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
Mirae Asset Global Investments will make a big play for the local exchange-traded fund market, confirming it will launch a suite of products before the end of the year. The US$229 billion Korean asset manager is due to launch Global X, an ETF specialist ...

Robeco introduces new indices

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
... Index range, the SDG Low-Carbon Indices are available for seven regions: Global AC, Global DM, Emerging Markets, US, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Japan. The index applies a proprietary SDG framework developed by Robeco, which excludes stocks that score negatively ...

Capital Group hires from Schroders

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
... representing Capital Group's fixed income team, deepening client engagement on bonds and growing the fixed income business across Asia. Based in Singapore, Cheng will focus on a range of fixed income investment strategies, including Capital Group Global ...

Chief economist: Is this a buy op?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
... their policy stance towards less aggression. As I write, US equity markets have closed higher, and those in Australia and Asia opened stronger today.

U Ethical adds two directors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022
... Re, AFG and FNZ Group. She also has over 10 years in chief executive or general manager roles in Australia, New Zealand and Asia with AXA, Mercer and Manulife. In addition, Kind is a qualified actuary. Burns has over 30 years of senior executive experience ...

Chief economist: Thank you, Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022
War, huh, yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, uhh - Edwin Starr "Crude soars, and stocks and crypto bomb lower, as fears of a Russia-Ukraine war consume global markets" - Fortune.com (22 February 2022) "The Dow Falls Just Short of a Correction. ...