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FTSE Russell hires client coverage lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
... asset owners, asset managers, and institutional clients. Lee takes on the role of FTSE Russell head of client coverage, index investments group, Pacific. She joins from SSGA where she spent the last two years as an equity investment strategist for Asia ...

ESSSuper launches Balanced Growth Managed option

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
... inflation or 3.75% above the rate of inflation for retirement income stream accounts. For example, if the consumer price index (CPI) averages 3% p.a. year over 10 years, the option aims for an average return of 6.25% p.a. or 6.75% p.a. respectively during ...

No one immune to cost-of-living pain: ABS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
... the previous quarter, and down from the peak of 9.6% in the June 2023 quarter." The pensioner and beneficiary living cost index (PBLCI) - which measures living costs for age pensioners and other government transfer recipient households - rose 4.1% over ...

Global X chief to step down

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024
... fund was an Australian Bank Credit ETF (ASX: BANK), which tracks the performance of the Solactive Australian Bank Credit Index and is Australia's first passively managed package of senior bonds, subordinated bonds, and hybrid securities. Metcalf ...

BlackRock bolsters suite of SMAs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2024
... capabilities within a managed account structure. They aim to blend a selection of BlackRock's strategies, both active and index, across various asset classes, including equities, fixed income, multi-asset, property, infrastructure, commodities, and liquid ...

Inflation rises but RBA hike not inevitable

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 1% in the June quarter and 3.8% annually, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). "The June quarter rise is the same as the 1% rise in the March 2024 quarter," ABS head of price ...

Top 10 Australian share funds of FY24

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024
... Equities Fund took out top spot with a 31.5% return. The fund, which has a diversified portfolio of Australian equities and is index unaware with an absolute return focus, also came first over a three-year period with an annual return of 17.2%. ECP AM ...

Future Fund hires Fortlake investments deputy

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024
... manager, Richards was director and portfolio manager at QTR Capital, a proprietary trading firm focusing on MSCI Global Index rebalances in developed markets and depository receipt arbitrage in Australia and the USA. The part-time lecturer at the University ...

Betashares launches momentum ETF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2024
... themselves given time requirements, susceptibility to behavioural bias and execution costs. MTUM will follow a rules-based index to prioritise stocks with strong and consistent momentum, while cutting the worst performers quickly. "As a strategy, momentum ...

DNR Capital introduces new global equity fund manager

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024
... administration. The fund has returned 9.53% since its inception in December 2023. It has outperformed the MSCI World SMID Total Return Index by 1.42%. Tura Capital portfolio manager Brad Partridge explained that the investment process is designed to ...