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Centuria raises $50m for new fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024
... College Hill located in Auckland to refurbish and convert it to a premium storage facility and then sell the property. In January, it bought a $21.5 million greenhouse farm based in South Australia. Centuria reported a drop in operating net profit after ...

HESTA names head of investment execution

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024
... previously worked at U Ethical for two years as a portfolio manager of fixed income and cash before joining the super fund in January.

Bitcoin hits fresh high as investors await halving event

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024
... crypto ETNs this week and spot Bitcoin ETFs being approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the US in January. Financial behemoths BlackRock, Invesco and Fidelity were among 11 spot Bitcoin ETF issuers that received the much-awaited ...

The tide is turning for North Asian equity markets: Maple-Brown Abbott

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024
... listed trading below book value (versus ~47% in Japan)," Main and Ho said. In China, the first signs of reform started in January 2023, when the state assets regulator (SASAC) announced the introduction of Return-on-Equity as a metric for management ...

WAM Leaders, QV Equities to merge

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024
... Leaders (ASX: WLE) is set to acquire QV Equities (ASX: QVE), about six weeks on from the former's initial announcement. In January, WAM Leaders said it intended to make an off-market takeover bid for QV Equities; associated entities already own close ...

Pendal shutters costly equity fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2024
... analysis read. Minimum investment amount was $500,000. Portfolio manager Jim Taylor has overseen the fund since its 8 January 2003 inception. Analyst Oliver Renton began co-managing the fund in 2022, taking over from Andrew Waddington. A fee comparison ...

Retirement saving, investing daunting for women: Surveys

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2024
... much faster on average than women over the past two years. Women's average balances have only increased by 3% since January 2022, while men's balances increased by a whopping 88%. Saxo head of FX strategy Charu Chanana said: "The gender investment ...

Alex Dunnin bids farewell to Rainmaker

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
... Rainmaker executive director, research Alex Dunnin's final day with the business, retiring from the company he first joined in January 1998. A familiar face to many, Dunnin is known for his no-nonsense insights on Australia's financial services industry ...

GQG reports US$10.5bn increase in FUM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
GQG Partners has reported a US$10.5 billion increase in funds under management (FUM) from January 31 to February 29. The boutique fund manager's international equity strategy, its largest, moved from US$49.2 billion to $52.9 billion. Its emerging ...

Advisers show growing interest in ASX-listed Bitcoin ETF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024
... Bitcoin ETF on the ASX. Since the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved 11 Bitcoin ETF applications in January, Neiron said that demand for access to Bitcoin via a listed vehicle traded on the ASX has been increasing, saying many of VanEck's ...