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Wealth managers under pressure on returns, ESG: Accenture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... report suggests that wealth management is a growing market, with established players across banking, capital markets and insurance pivoting parts of their business towards wealth management with the aim of capturing stable, recurring, and lucrative fees," ...

Opinion: Mind the gap: Investors continue to stall on climate action, despite sentiment confirming its risks

DAVID KLAUSNER  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... Monetary Authority of Singapore released its Guidelines on Environmental Risk Management for asset managers, banks, and insurance companies. These outline how financial institutions will need to develop environmental risk management frameworks and incorporate ...

Countdown to 2050: the road to net zero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... contain climate change to less than 2 degrees Celsius. For their part, super funds, fund managers, asset consultants, and insurance companies are grappling with how to build the processes that will allow them to achieve their fiduciary responsibilities ...

Crescent Wealth announces new shareholder, board appointments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... and distinguished academic Emeritus Professor Dianne Yerbury, deputy chair Nicholas Whitlam, former chairman of NRMA Insurance/IAG and the Port Authority of NSW, and John Hewson. "Support from Mr Shahin will provide us with a further boost as we work ...

Maple-Brown Abbott appoint new head of ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... maternity cover role. She has a background in product governance and sustainability across superannuation, investments and insurance. Prior to coming to Maple-Brown Abbott, she was with BT, most recently as head of customer governance and sustainability. ...

A little more conversation and a lot more action

PIERRE LENDERS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... Additionally, over time this will prove to be transformational for the food, apparels, transportation, real estate, banking, insurance, as well as many other segments of the economy.

ASFI reports on momentum towards sustainable finance sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... practice. ASFI has released its first momentum report, gathering information on the ways in which investors, banks and insurance companies are acting on the 37 recommendations in the ASFI roadmap, which was published last year. The 37 recommendations ...

Neuberger Berman closes $280m private equity impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... director Paul O'Halloran. The Impact Fund is backed by global investors, including public and private pension plans, insurance companies and other financial institutions, endowments, foundations and family offices. O'Halloran confirmed that Australian ...

Steep rise in demand for ESG wealth management products: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... report that they are seeking to consolidate their financial relationships in one place - across private banking, wealth, insurance and investment services - but 66% of those who would like to consolidate have yet to choose a sole provider. One deciding ...

Assessing climate risk in corporate bond portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... framework to identify and reduce climate risks in corporate bond portfolios. The framework has been developed to assist insurance and superannuation fund clients in particular to manage two main risks - issuer balance sheet and cash flow implications ...