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Boutique investment manager hits the market

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
... insight, greater accuracy, and therefore reliability," it said. Birkhold said the goal is to break away from conventional metrics, like EPS growth and Price-to-Earnings ratios, and instead focus on economic measures of corporate performance and embedded ...

APRA calls out high-cost super platforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
... administration fees and costs than other product types, APRA said in its newly released package of product performance metrics and insights, adding it may be "particularly detrimental" to members with lower account balances. APRA's Comprehensive Product ...

Managers struggle to secure positive net flows in FY24

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2024
... pulling in the highest net flows of $7.7 billion. Close behind, BetaShares attracted $5.9 billion in net flows, followed by Metrics Credit Partners ($3.6 billion). On the losing side, Magellan suffered the largest negative net flows, shedding $3.3 billion ...

Metrics to list CRE fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2024
A new Metrics Credit Partners real estate fund is set to debut on the ASX, marking the fund manager's third strategy on the exchange. The Metrics Real Estate Multi-Strategy Fund is scheduled to list on or around October 16 under the ticker code ...

Generation Development Group profit jumps

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2024
... executive Grant Hackett said FY24 proved to be another year of outperformance for the company, "surpassing all our key metrics," including record sales for both investment bonds and its investment-linked lifetime annuity, LifeIncome, totaling $674 million. ...

Super performance test needs personal rate of return: Adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024
... up missing the mark on ensuring positive member outcomes, according to a financial advice expert advocating for better metrics. Mark Bastiaans, the principal financial adviser of AdviceSA, said the current time-weighted cash-flow methodology for the ...

UK regulators propose framework for workplace pension schemes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
... collaboration with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Pensions Regulator, would assess pension schemes on "public metrics that demonstrate value," including not just costs, but investment performance, and service quality, in a bid to improve ...

TAL appoints chief executive, individual life

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2024
... two decades of experience in the insurance sector, TAL said Teichner has a proven track record working across different metrics, organising the product development and management, as well as underwriting, pricing and data analytics. The "forward-thinking" ...

ANZ, Westpac 'the cheapest majors': Morningstar

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024
... "Commonwealth Bank is expensive. On a forward P/E over 20 times and a fully franked dividend yield under 4%, valuation metrics leave little room for disappointment. The share price strength is at odds with our three-year EPS growth forecast of 4% per ...

Rest increases private credit investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
Rest is strengthening its position in Australian private credit by increasing its investment in Metrics Credit Partners' Real Estate Debt Fund (REDF). Rest said the move further diversifies its private markets and whole of fund exposures. Rest chief ...