Morningstar's managing director for Australia and New Zealand, Jamie Wickham, is to depart the business after 17 years and will be replaced by the firm’s wealth head.
The Australian ETF industry saw trading values fall to their lowest values in over two years as April’s figure was almost half its March value.
It will be impossible to find a “sweet spot” of how much information on ESG is appropriate and advisers can expect overwhelming volumes to continue to be necessary for compliance, according to a panel.
A change in power dynamics can mean the need to change an investment strategy’s ESG approach overnight, according to a panel of advisers.
Federated Hermes has appointed Jim Roland as head of distribution for Asia Pacific as the firm expands in the region.
In this week’s episode of Relative Return, Mayflower Consulting’s CEO, Sarah Penn, chats with host James Mitchell about structural issues in the Australian superannuation sector.
Minister for financial services, Stephen Jones, has blamed the federal budget for the delays to the Quality of Advice Review but said he is expectant of a position by June.
ASIC is unlikely to slow its pace on greenwashing enforcement, according to deputy chair Karen Chester, or it will run the risk of making Australia a target for misconduct.
There is a real need to remove the language of “woke capitalism” from ESG investment, according to a panel, if there is to be progress in Australia.
With significant action towards sustainable finance announced in the 2023–24 budget, the building blocks are now in place for meaningful change, according to RIAA’s chief executive, Simon O’Connor.
