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Undisclosed additional lending must stop

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... bank, typically for commercial property related purposes, is an "inappropriate market practice", he said, and poses a real risk to investors. He thinks it is a poor market practice for two reasons. One, he said, a borrower has an obligation to disclose ...

Aussie active managers underperform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... funds. Active core is defined as products with an investment objective of outperforming the benchmark with a moderate active risk level and high performance is defined as products with high levels of active risk against the asset class benchmark. Over ...

Suncorp pays $1.4m remediation bill

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... have been at risk of having received poor advice from 'high-risk' advisers, who were identified using a range of risk metrics applied to all advisers in the Guardian Advice network. Affected clients were also compensated under this remediation program ...

Workplace deaths missing from ESG reports: ACSI

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... the council's 12th annual assessment of ESG reporting by ASX200 companies, which expanded its analysis to include safety metrics this year. It found that 22 people from 13 ASX200 companies died in their workplaces in 2018, 16 of which were contractors ...

APRA proposes new remuneration standard

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... standards of accountability and reduce the likelihood of misconduct. "Limiting the influence of financial performance metrics in determining variable remuneration will encourage executives to put greater focus on non-financial risks, such as culture ...

Fund managers lag on ESG

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... 0.1%), Platinum Asset Management scored 66.7 (steady). The report noted Australia's ageing population as a potential ESG risk for all three businesses. "Ageing population could be a negative as industry asset mix shifts from growth to income assets," ...

Best-performing funds with least risk

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... measures. However, in the high performance category, the Allan Gray Australia Equity Fund slipped down the ranks when the risk metrics were considered, while Legg Mason Martin Currie Select Opps Fund broke into the top five products in the category. ...

Fintechs to play vital ESG role: AXA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... starting to use information from AXA's insurance business to understand geolocation of assets so that we can create a physical risk approach. You have to think about supply chains and which companies are most likely to be impacted by storms," Christensen ...

Hard times ahead for platforms

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2019
... declining profits indicating platform divisions should trade on single digit PEs, overall valuation metrics carry downside risk in our view," UBS wrote. "These headwinds impact both AMP and IFL; however IFL's higher relative exposure, slower response ...

Property risks dip at Coalition win, APRA easing

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
UBS has materially reduced downside risk for housing as last Saturday's elections lay to rest Labor's negative gearing plans and separately, APRA is easing its stance on mortgage lending. "The main implication of the election is the absence of expected ...