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Rest, NZ Super Fund top global rankings for best practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... annual study examines all the publicly available information from the world's largest sovereign wealth and public pension funds to compile its scorecard. It assesses criteria including transparency and accountability, governance structure and processes ...

En garde: New fund eyes Vanguard, Betashares' turf

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
Vanguard, Betashares, and BlackRock have an iron grip over the ETF industry, commanding the lion's share of funds under management (FUM) - thanks largely to their flagship core, low-cost equity exposures. However, Financial Standard understands that ...

DomaCom Fund names new RE

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... fractional investment in real estate across the NDIS, residential and commercial sectors. It invests in underlying mortgage funds which invest in a unit trust with underlying exposure to registered mortgages. Assetora chair Giuseppe Porcelli said: "This ...

Small industry super funds beat giants on trust, service, value

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
Small industry super funds lead on trust, service, and value for money, according to CoreData's annual member engagement survey. CoreData research consultant Alana Devitt told Financial Standard that members' trust in small industry funds is built through ...

L1 Capital, Platinum merger inches closer to reality

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... be able to participate in the performance fees related to the first 5% of absolute returns generated by the L1 Long Short funds with anything over that going to L1's shareholders. Now, the combined entity will receive 3%, with the excess going to L1 ...

Investor optimism premature, fund flows in firing line

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... managers in the coverage "lack the consistent outperformance needed to recapture market share lost to ETFs and industry funds." "Most deliver only average peer-relative returns. Even GQG - despite a stronger long-term track record-faces near-term challenges ...

QIC offloads Victorian shopping centre for $440m

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
The Lowy Family Group-backed Assembly Funds Management (AFM) has struck a deal with PGIM Real Estate to jointly acquire QIC's Woodgrove Shopping Centre in Melton, Victoria for $440 million. The single-level centre, spanning over 27 hectares of land ...

Pacific Current Group appoints new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... to May 2023. Previously, he also served as country head, Australia for BlackRock and was chief executive of the Victorian Funds Management Corporation. He also has close to two decades' experience with Goldman Sachs and JBWere. Currently, he also serves ...

Rest pilots Payday Super tech, moves to implement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... employers prepare for Payday Super." Wrkr's solutions are currently used by more than 70,000 businesses, including four super funds, including Aware Super and Commonwealth Super Corporation, and APRA and the ATO. It's also used by more than 28,000 self-managed ...

Boutiques wield independence, specialisation over larger managers: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... US boutiques over other asset managers during a 20-year period was as high as 127bps annually for emerging markets equity funds and 113bps annually for global equity funds. For US small caps, it was between 31bps and 101bps. Bayes Business School professor ...