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India Avenue launches active ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
India Avenue Investment Management has launched its first active ETF on Cboe Australia. The India Avenue Equity Fund Active ETF (IAEF) was admitted on the exchange yesterday. The fund invests in predominantly publicly listed companies in India or generate ...

Aussie instos on the hunt for niche opportunities

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
... private credit allocations into new niche opportunities. The survey also found that Australian have a stronger appetite for risk than their global counterparts. In Australia, 69% of investors said they planned to increase their equity exposure and only ...

TWC Invest makes risk, technology hires

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
TWC Invest has announced the appointments of a chief risk and compliance officer and a chief technology officer. TWC Invest said the appointees will support the firm's "differentiated lifecycle investment approach." Stephen Thompson has taken on ...

Underperforming managers in China could see pay halved

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
The markets regulator in China is threatening to slash the pay of fund managers by 50% if they underperform their benchmarks as part of a shake-up of the US$4.6 trillion mutual fund industry, according to a report. A Bloomberg article shows that the ...

Australia can benefit from China's economic growth amid trade war: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2025
China is now better equipped to absorb US trade tariffs compared to 2018-19 and is poised for growth that can benefit Australia despite the unrelenting trade war, according to experts who spoke at the China Investor Symposium. Amid the spate of universal ...

Mercer adds to wealth team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... data of more than 18,000 clients stolen and released on the dark web. According to ASIC, FIIG failed to have adequate cyber risk management systems in place for a period of four years - from March 2019 to June 2023.

Australia must focus on 'friend-shoring': UNSW

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
The first research from the e61-UNSW Policy Research Partnership has highlighted the major economic policy challenges faced by Australia and made five key recommendations ahead of this year's federal election. The research found that navigating United ...

Wilson AM to launch first monthly LIC strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... The new listed investment company (LIC) will provide investors with a monthly income stream and capital growth with "less risk" once launched on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on April 30. The WAM Income Maximiser (ASX:WMX) aims to provide ...

ASIC, ASFA spar over super fund trustees 'not knowing' their business

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
ASIC chair Joe Longo has torched the superannuation sector, branding it the "poster child" for what can and does go wrong when governance implodes, while accusing directors of "not knowing" their business. In a speech at the Australian Institute of ...

UK regulators abandon DEI reporting push

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... diversity and inclusion in the culture of the firms we regulate can deliver improved internal governance, decision-making and risk management, and that this can support both safety and soundness - through reduced risk of group-think - and the competitiveness ...