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Modern slavery on the rise a decade on from Rana Plaza

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023
... impact Meg Brodie. "The introduction of that legislation and a reporting initiative started the conversation in what is a pretty nascent/emerging market for embracing human rights risk, full stop." During the same decade, the United Nations promulgated ...

Love affair with managed accounts continues

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2023
... leading the space in model portfolios and managed accounts. "They're sitting at $2 trillion," she said. "So that's a pretty significant number and it suggests that Australia's got a long way to go." According to Schafer, 47% of advisers said ...

Advice industry must change as population ages: Expert

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... these variations in accumulation and decumulation plus when they want to take on risk," he said. "So, we move away from a pretty standard financial advice model to something much more complicated, that of course runs into a major problem because regulators ...

Do your cyber-attack drills: Funds warned

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... scenarios as damning as possible, because if you look around at what's happened to some other companies, they've been pretty detrimental." Financial Standard is the official media partner of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees' ...

Future-proofing the super system: Rees

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... be compulsory, Rees said the common argument is that people would rather put that money into a home. "But the stats are pretty clear, and if you use APRA's data, the long term returns for superannuation are in the order of 7-8% and the long term ...

ASX shifts slightly on Credit Suisse, First Republic

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
... bailouts of First Republic Bank and Credit Suisse, but has since remained unsteady. This mornings slight jump - 0.3% - was pretty modest, CommSec senior economist Ryan Felsman told Financial Standard. Following on from the slight increase, the ASX remained ...

First Super awards ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2023
... Bill Watson told FS Sustainability. "Whether it's Dominos and underpayment of workers, 7-11, Qantas contracting out pretty much all of its services, the big retailers - they've all been involved in one type or another of labour controversies. ...

Super on PPL a drop in the ocean

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2023
... women also retire with dignity is a drop in the ocean. "We wouldn't even feel the bump," explained Dunnin. "It's pretty horrendous that we're having an argument over whether we should spend an extra $200 million each year on some budget item. ...

Gurner, Qualitas close second BTR fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2023
... the second quarter of the year. "When we first launched the GQ platform in 2021, we set out to lead the sector with some pretty ambitious growth plans," Gurner chief executive Tim Gurner said. "We are now well ahead of our forecasts in terms of pipeline ...

Ethical, sustainable ETFs top $9bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2023
... review of all our PDSs and marketing to make sure it's consistent with those principle, and I'm happy to say it pretty much was," Liddell said. "What ASIC didn't do, of course, is that it hasn't done what Europe and Japan has done, which ...