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Fund selectors harbour AI bubble fears, affirm belief in its longevity

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024
... tactical adjustments within asset classes. The survey also highlighted a decade-long effort by wealth managers to balance active and passive investments, with a current allocation of 64% to active and 36% to passive. With expectations of sustained high ...

Online investor participation declines

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2024
Active online investor numbers have continued to decline, albeit at a slower rate, according to an Investment Trends report. The report, which surveyed more than 15,000 retail investors and traders in Australia, revealed a contraction to 1.22 million ...

Actively managed, ESG funds top 2023 outflows

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2024
... Over the last five years, passive fund inflows totalled $82 billion (US$53bn) compared to just $2.6 billion (US$1.7bn) active funds managed to bring in. Growth in sustainable investing between 2020 and 2022 that saw inflows of $79 billion (US$51.2bn) ...

MA Financial buys $96m hotel to seed fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2024
The alternative asset manager has purchased a large-scale Melbourne hotel from Singaporean real estate group Hiap Hoe Limited. The acquisition of the hotel seeds the new MA Accommodation Hotel Fund, an open-ended wholesale fund targeting accommodation ...

ASIC to tighten grip on super fund misdemeanours

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
... greenwashing, which she said remains a key focus for ASIC in 2024, Court said With proceedings underway against Mercer Super and Active Super, trustees will be aware that we will use every lever legislation affords us to eliminate this practice, and ...

Super funds defend controversial weapons holdings

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
... weapons," a TelstraSuper spokesperson said. Holdings in Elbit, Thales, BAE Systems, and Honeywell are held across a mix of active and passive equity strategies that account for less than 0.01% of its AUM. "None are on our exclusion list as they do not ...

IFM offloads stake in payment software business to Autodesk

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2024
IFM Investors has reached an agreement to divest its stake in construction payment software business Payapps, previously known as Zuuse, to Autodesk. Since 2020, IFM's private equity funds has held a significant minority share of Payapps, with an initial ...

Perpetual weathers $4.3bn in outflows

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024
... in a second quarter FY24 business update. Perpetual chief executive Rob Adams said it had been a "difficult period for active asset managers," denoting "the worst quarter in 15 years for active equity fund flows," referencing Morningstar data. "Whilst ...

Netwealth records $78bn FUA, flags departure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024
Netwealth is reporting a record increase in funds under administration (FUA), as it prepares to farewell its chief financial officer. In a quarterly update, Netwealth said a $6 billion increase in FUA in the December quarter has pushed its total FUA ...

Aware Super appoints head of public market equities

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024
... equity portfolio management at Charles Schwab, and portfolio manager for global institutional index equities and quant active equities at BlackRock. She most recently held the position of chief investment officer and head of advisory services at Vestmark ...