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Silvercrest AM expands into Australia, launches fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2026
... relative value to deep value, seeking long-term capital appreciation and outperformance of the MSCI All Country World Index benchmark. Silvercrest global head of institutional business Allen Gray said he is delighted to welcome Manonian to the team. ...

Platform cybersecurity, service quality now advisers' deciding factors

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2026
... poor service was a driver in 50% of cases where advisers stopped using a platform. Investment Trends recalibrated its benchmark to increase weightings in "high priority" areas and found that overall scores moderated across the market, with HUB24 retaining ...

L1 Group realises $24m of $35m merger cost synergies

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
... said. L1 Capital's Long Short Fund, running since September 2014, provided a return of 20% per annum compared to its benchmark. The Global Long Short Fund returned investors 78.2% compared to the benchmark. It said it has a pipeline of exciting new ...

Unintended consequences of passive investing materialise: MFS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
... time. It's the misaligned objective and where the incentives are because the tolerance of underperformance of a benchmark is a third of a full market cycle," she said. "The conversation is not necessarily wrong or right. All this says is we have ...

First half steady, net inflows positive for Fiducian

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2026
... these were partially recovered when their positive results were announced. Our investment strategy to move close to benchmark by marginally reducing growth asset exposure and increasing fixed interest exposure early in the first half had proven successful." ...

GQG reports increased FUM despite $5.5bn outflows

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2026
GQG Partners has reported funds under management (FUM) for FY25 of $231.27 billion (US$163.9bn), a 7.1% increase. This comes despite outflows of $5.5 billion (US$3.9bn) for the period ending 31 December 2025. GQG chief executive Tim Carver said despite ...

Irish sovereign wealth fund mandates four managers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2026
... ensuring the funds are invested in a prudent and effective manner to deliver on their legislative mandates." The FIF benchmark is 80% equities and 20% fixed income. Over time, this will become 70% public equities, 10% publicly quoted fixed income, 10% ...

GQG sees $6bn outflows in a month

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2026
GQG Partners saw $5.94 billion (US$4.3bn) in outflows in January alone. By comparison, the investment manager saw total outflows in the year ended 31 December 2025 of $5.8 billion (US$3.9bn). GQG did not provide an explanation for the outflows in its ...

Macquarie AM to acquire Last Mile Infrastructure and Energy Assets Group

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2026
... a 25-year, 50 Megawatt (MW) renewable power purchase agreement (PPA), achieving a Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) of around 100 and five-star ratings through 2023 to 2025. The sale was completed on January 13, marking one of the largest ...

ASX partners with Bloomberg on credit futures product

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2026
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is collaborating with Bloomberg Indices to introduce new futures contracts that track two of Bloomberg's indices on its ASX 24 platform. The ASX-Bloomberg AusBond Index Futures will enable investors to manage ...