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JPMAM unveils sustainable fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
... some sectors like controversial weapons, tobacco and fossil fuels. The first iteration of the fund launched in Europe in August 2019, which returned 3.72% per annum, well above the benchmark's -0.52% p.a. as at December 2020. It currently has a 44% ...

CFA Institute offers free exam deferral

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
... July or later. Level II and Level III candidates who missed the December exams due to COVID-19 can now register for May, August or November exams at no extra cost. Additionally, for the first time the CFA Institute will offer limited-capacity online ...

QBE appoints local chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
... insurance as its new chief executive for Australia and Pacific division. Sue Houghton will join QBE in the Sydney-based role in August. Houghton is currently Westpac's managing director for insurance across three units: life insurance lenders mortgage ...

New trading platform to launch

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
... Marshall Investments. The two eventually brought in Smith to provide technical know-how. The platform ramped up testing in August of last year and currently has some 5000 early-access users. About half of its clients are autoinvesting. The platform is ...

Chief economist update: Virus now, inflation later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
... statements certainly make sense, particularly in light of the "new framework" it announced at the Jackson Hole symposium in August last year. The Fed is switching from a point target of 2% inflation to achieving "achieve inflation that averages 2% over ...

Chief economist update: Japan's second state of emergency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... on 16 September 2020. The number of daily new cases, active cases and daily deaths were trending down after peaking in August, justifying the lifting of the initial state of emergency on May 25 - a month and a bit after it was put in place. This, along ...

Magellan continues fund restructure

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
... restructure of its retail global equities funds and opened the partnership offer to eligible investors. Magellan announced in August that it was seeking unitholder approval to combine the investment funds of Magellan Global Fund (the unlisted managed ...

Chief economist update: Yuan the victim of China's success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
... level - and the threshold Beijing authorities are willing to tolerate before intervening - to an 11-year low of 7.1087 in August 2019. To be sure, America's Treasury dropped the designation in January 2020 because: "China has made enforceable commitments ...

Lack of diversity major business risk: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... communities, and our economy - and is material to long-term sustainable returns." SSGA contacted global company directors in August 2020 to advise companies that their diversity engagements had expanded to include discussions of race and ethnicity, and ...

ASIC cancels stockbroker AFSL

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... have $19.7 million worth of deficiencies in client funds across the group, which is about 9% of its investor funds but by August of last year this was found to be $33 million or 13%. The firm had more than 12,000 client accounts registered across Australia ...