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Challenger shareholders revolt against remuneration

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
Challenger's company-wide salary freeze wasn't enough to appease shareholders, who delivered a first strike against its executive pay yesterday. Of the total votes cast, 28.25% were against adopting the remuneration report, meaning it was approved ...

Robo-advice a complement, not disruptor: Six Park

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
The advice industry is faced with increasing demand for affordable and accessible financial advice and implementing digital solutions to segment clients could be the answer, according to a new whitepaper. Digital advice provider Six Park's latest whitepaper ...

Chief economist update: Good or bad news is good Wall Street news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
It may have gone up and down and round and round but the US equity market has trended higher and higher and is outperforming its peers. Despite topping the list of total cases of coronavirus infections (8.6 million), new cases (0.6 million) and deaths ...

American manager eyes local market

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... equity indices, fixed interest, commodities and currencies. "It uses a proprietary set of 30+ underlying strategies spanning trend, enhanced trend, short-term, non-directional and risk-off alpha, and is designed for investors wanting to take advantage ...

BetaShares' Nasdaq ETF surpasses $1bn

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... achieved such a significant milestone. "Technology has been a key driver of growth in global stock markets for some time now, a trend that has been reinforced as the world increasingly moves online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic," he said. "We're ...

Chief economist update: UK's winter of discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... (Associated Press, August 7) To be sure, there were no cause for concern - the cases of infection continued its downward trend from a 7-day moving average of around 3700 when restrictions were first eased to 1300 by the end of August. COVID-19 infections ...

AMP Capital buys digital infrastructure firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
AMP Capital will acquire a majority stake in a Swedish technology company, adding to its growing infrastructure equity portfolio. AMP Capital will be a majority shareholder in VX Fiber, which provides fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks by partnering ...

Robo advice solution set to launch

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2020
Nucleus Wealth and Arrow Financial Advice have partnered to launch a white label digital advice platform, set to feature actively managed portfolios and over 30 ESG filters. This will make it the most comprehensive robo advice service in the Australian ...

Chief economist update: Dan defeats second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2020
... medicine may be, it's starting to work downunder. Melbourne's 14-day average of coronavirus infections continues to trend lower, this day at 32.8 persons - within the average 30-50 case rate that the Andrews government declared would trigger ...

The future of infrastructure is digital: Macquarie

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020
COVID-19 has only served to accelerate the already growing trend towards digital infrastructure, according to Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (MIP). Speaking to Financial Standard as part of the JANA Annual Conference, chief executive of MIP, Macquarie ...