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BlackRock drops fees on bond ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... assets. It attracted $426 million in inflows in the 12 months ending May 29, making it the seventh-highest inflows among local ETFs. IGB has about $83.6 million in net assets and saw $65 million in outflows during the period. BlackRock recently added ...

State Street rejigs international equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
State Street has relaunched an international equities fund for local investors looking for a climate change and ESG focused portfolio, with a new benchmark. The State Street Climate ESG International builds on a fund launched in 2016, which initially ...

Global asset manager appoints local insto lead

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
A global asset manager overseeing almost $1 trillion in assets has appointed a local institutional lead. Aberdeen Standard Investments has appointed Vishal Sharma as institutional director of Australian and New Zealand, as the firm looks to grow its ...

Northern Trust touts new ESG tool to instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
The fast-growing custodian is pitching a new ESG analytics tools to local superannuation funds and asset managers to track, compare and benchmark their ESG score. Northern Trust, which is best known in Australia as custodian to a number of public sector ...

Best, worst global equities funds in March quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... March quarter in Morningstar's universe, while a Stewart Investors fund came out on top. In the March quarter, while the local S&P/ASX Small Ords Total Return fell 26.72%, global stock market indices were down between 6.26% (MSCI AC Asia Ex Japan NR ...

Stand still, get left behind

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... of rating, scoring and measuring ESG success. It features insights from J.P. Morgan, Fidelity International, Schroders, Local Government Super, Mercer and more.

All-tech index offers new opps in financial advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
For investors keen to claim their stake in local tech companies early in the wave, financial advisers have a new solution. Today the Australian stock exchange launched a new technology index, the S&P/ASX All Tech index, which in its early days will ...

Acadian taps CFS executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
Acadian Asset Management has started off the New Year by boosting its local leadership team with the addition of a Colonial First State executive manager. Former CFS executive manager of deposits and investment products Mark Mukundan has joined the ...

The secret to super outperformance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... Superannuation, Catholic Super, Cbus, Christian Super, Commonwealth Superannuation Corp, Future Fund, Future Super, HESTA, Local Government Super, NZ Super Fund, TCorp and UniSuper all have two or more. The report also highlighted an increase in interest ...

Global manager names regional director

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
Aberdeen Standard Investments has strengthened its local investment capabilities with the appointment of a new investment director, joining from Victorian Funds Management Corporation. Danielle Welsh-Rose has joined as ASI's ESG investment director ...