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UBS terminates Future Leaders small cap fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
... Small Companies Fund, less than two years after its Australian launch. The fund, which was an actively managed global strategy of 40 to 60 small cap "future leader" stocks, designed to provide investors with exposure to high-quality companies, was wound ...

CFS unveils fund manager, fee changes to FirstChoice

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
... mandates. Meanwhile, FirstChoice Wholesale will also see the appointment of Platypus and Capital Group come through. For this strategy, CFS announced changes that will affect four other options from mid-November. The CFS Alternatives option will be replaced ...

MLC AM awards listed property mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024
... awarded a mandate to a global investment manager, replacing Presima and BlackRock. Following a review of its global REIT strategy, the fund manager confirmed that NYSE-listed Cohen & Steers won a new mandate but did not disclose its size. BlackRock previously ...

AMP hires growth lead for super, investments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024
... addition to the Super and Investments business and will provide strong support for our current teams driving our growth strategy as well as our risk and compliance frameworks."

Major global trends impacting advisers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024
... exposure to global equities and private equity. Schroders said investors were committed to their long-term investment strategy (45%) and believed active managers should help them outperform passive in the current environment (61.3%). Similarly, 72.5% ...

ClearView announces executive changes

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024
... said Beaumont's appointment reinforces the organisation's focus on its priorities. "As a life only company, our business strategy and our priorities are clear, and our technology and business transformation, and regulatory matters, remain top priorities ...

APRA questioned on super performance test

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024
... difficult to take those responsibilities away from the trustees, the funds, who are best placed to oversee the investment strategy and its investment spread." In his opening remarks, APRA chair John Lonsdale said the regulator is continuing to drive ...

Institutional outflows ensure mixed quarter for Insignia Financial

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024
... initiatives, including the separation from NAB, greater cost savings, embedding the new structure, and working on the FY26-30 strategy which is to be announced next month.

HMC Capital makes $2bn acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024
... underwrite the acquisition, HMC is undertaking an equity raising of $300 million. HMC said this is consistent with its strategy to maintain a strong and flexible balance sheet and actively recycle capital. It hopes to achieve a group wide ROE of 20%+. ...

Down but not out: Busting defined benefit myths

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
... flexible and subject to change-potentially influenced by factors such as insolvency or restructuring. The de-risking strategy also comes down to timing, dependent on available capital and favourable market conditions, such as a normalised interest rate ...