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Former van Eyk chief executive pleads guilty

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2022
... counts of dishonestly using his position in March last year and pleaded guilty in Downing Centre Local Court this week. In its case, ASIC alleged that over a three-week period in 2014, Thomas used his position as director of Blueprint Investment Management ...

Evolving nature of investment operations boosts salaries

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2022
A limited talent pool is creating supply challenges in the investment operations space and driving salary increases, according to Kaizen Recruitment. Updating on salary trends in investment operations, Kaizen Recruitment said the theme of increased ...

ANZ sued by ASIC

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2022
... or balance until that amount is cleared by ANZ and available to use without adverse consequences. The date for the first case management hearing is yet to be scheduled.

Fossil fuel divestment bill passes California Senate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2022
The California Senate passed a bill overnight prohibiting the United States' two largest public pension funds from investing in the world's top 200 fossil fuel companies and require them to divest any existing holdings by 2030. The California ...

Index investing of greater benefit: Vanguard

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... extremely rare," the report reads. Commenting on the paper, Vanguard senior investment strategist Inna Zorina said that the case for low-cost indexing has been around for almost half a century, and still endures. "It boils down to the simple idea that ...

Pallas Capital introduces feeder fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... mortgages secured over premium real estate assets with each loan having a maximum loan to value ratio of 65% (or 70% in the case of investment loans). It assesses each loan according to robust and prudent lending criteria. PFT specifically caters to ...

US Fed indicates several more half-percentage rate rises

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... most participants agreed that 50 basis point increases would likely be implemented in the coming months. As has been the case in prior meetings participants again agreed that the economic outlook was highly uncertain. Developments associated with Russia's ...

BNY Mellon subsidiary to pay US$1.5m over ESG misstatements

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2022
... September 2021, BNY Mellon implied that all investments in the funds had undergone an ESG quality review, which wasn't the case. Deputy director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement and head of its limate and ESG Task Force, Sanjay Wadhwa explained ...

Risk asset volatility guaranteed: Western Asset

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
... markets have been a recent laggard but could be the best reopening sector. The report said: "Ongoing global growth is our base case and if we also get the reduced inflation that we expect to see over the course of 2022, then this would be extremely supporting ...

Allianz subsidiary, former portfolio managers charged over massive fraud

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2022
... including pension funds for teachers, clergy, bus drivers, engineers and other individuals, SEC chair Gary Gensler said. "This case once again demonstrates that even the most sophisticated institutional investors, like pension funds, can become victims ...