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Capital Group strengthens ESG commitment

Capital Group has recruited Jessica Ground as global head of ESG, a new position for the US$1.7 trillion firm. She will join Capital from Schroders, where she has worked for about 20 years, in September. Capital has a well-established Australian and New Zealand presence. Ground, who will be based in London, will be responsible for…

Investor Strategy News | 21st Jun 2020 | More
Russell sees value awaken from the dead

Value investors are finally seeing “green shoots” in a style that has underperformed for over a decade, Russell Investments chief investment officer, Peter Gunning, global CIO for Russell Investments, said last week. In the first of a webinar series replacing the annual Russell NZ conference this year, Gunning said the value factor had flickered into…

Investor Strategy News | 21st Jun 2020 | More
Uniting Church fund re-think on Rio after desecration

Uniting Financial Services, perhaps the oldest ethical investor in Australia, whose philosophy and processes can be traced back to the 1980s, has ceased what was likely to be a positive review of Rio Tinto, as a stock in which to invest. The re-think followed RIO’s desecration of a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site in Western Australia. Rio…

Investor Strategy News | 14th Jun 2020 | More
MAX Awards themselves a winner

Eschewing cruder customs, such as making money, Rainmaker Information delivered an entertaining awards night for sales and marketing people in funds management, despite the current restrictions. Usually a gala social dinner at Sydney’s Ivy Ballroom, the MAX Awards went virtual last week (June 11). They worked. Despite the straightened times, the publisher and events company…

Investor Strategy News | 14th Jun 2020 | More
Hosting a virtual event? Learn from Mothers Day Classic

People in the investment industry, as well as media and events, are taking stock of what can be learned and retained from how we coped with COVID-19 so far – as has been going on in most other industries. Perhaps the best-case study for very big events was provided by the organisers of Mothers Day…

Investor Strategy News | 14th Jun 2020 | More
  • Managers and vendors show operational resilience

    For heads of operations at big funds management firms, moving 100 per cent of their staff to work from home was their biggest challenge of dealing with COVID-19. But what quickly followed was that share market and derivatives trading volumes spiked. It was a scramble to get back to business as usual. Ross Gulliford, head…

    Investor Strategy News | 14th Jun 2020 | More
    NAS wins best sub-custodian award

    National Australia Bank Asset Servicing (NAS) has won the top award for the ‘Best Sub-Custodian Bank in Australia’ from Global Finance magazine in New York. The award’s judges assessed “reliably providing the best services in local markets and regions”. They did so for custodian banks in about 80 countries across seven regions. The decision, announced…

    Investor Strategy News | 14th Jun 2020 | More
    BNP Paribas rolls out ‘natural language generation’

    BNP Paribas Securities Services, with US$10.6 trillion in assets under custody, has started to use ‘Natural Language Generation’ (NLG) to help its global custody clients enhance monitoring and oversight of their operations. The new reporting is being rolled out globally, starting in Europe and the UK. As part of its digital transformation program, BNP Paribas…

    Investor Strategy News | 14th Jun 2020 | More
    ‘Soft target’ NZ Super caught in Moroccan fertiliser row

    A fertiliser industry body has won the right to butt into a looming legal action between the NZ Superannuation Fund (NZS) and a Western Sahara political activist. In a ruling handed down in the Auckland High Court last Friday (June 12), Justice Palmer agreed the Fertiliser Association of NZ could ‘intervene’ in the case brought…

    Investor Strategy News | 14th Jun 2020 | More
    Schroders restocks multi-asset team

    Schroders Australia will bolster its multi-asset team with Angus Sippe set to join as portfolio manager in the September quarter. Schroders deputy head of multi-asset, Simon Stevenson, announced his retirement last week after 13 years with the global investment firm. Stevenson will officially retire at the end of 2020, Schroders multi-asset head, Simon Doyle, confirmed…

    Investor Strategy News | 14th Jun 2020 | More
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