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Monetary policy to underscore 2025 allocations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
Investors have head into the New Year with many of the same concerns they had at the start of 2024, with interest rates and inflation to dominate once again. Last November, RBA governor Michele Bullock indicated the central bank views its settings as ...

GQG ends year with $32.7bn net inflows

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
GQG Partners experienced net inflows of US$20.3 billion ($32.7bn) for the full year ending 31 December 2024, nearly double the US$10.2 billion it netted in 2023. Of the total inflows last year, US$2.8 billion came in the fourth quarter - this is despite ...

Investors should stay the course in 2025: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
Despite some critical short-term influences markets are currently withstanding, Morningstar portfolio manager Bianca Rose is advising investors to tread into the new year carefully without committing their investments solely to those events. Rose told ...

Boutique global asset management firms' investment outlook

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
Global senior executives from boutique asset management firms see a proliferation of risks - and investment opportunities in 2025. Members of the Group of Boutique Asset Managers (GBAM) have spotted concentration risks in the US, geopolitical risks ...

Funds are 'getting back to basics', says report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2024
... 25% through public equity. Separately, the majority (58%) of respondents now view India as the most attractive emerging market, up from 38% last year, driven by strong macroeconomic fundamentals and a favourable regulatory environment. Notably, large ...

Hostplus ups fees, makes $125m investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2024
Hostplus has made changes to its investment fees and costs for FY23/24, increasing them between 0.06% to 0.16%. Members invested in the Conservative Balanced option and the Capital Stable option saw fees rise 10bps from 0.69% and 0.59%, respectively ...

CFS awards equity, infrastructure mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
Colonial First State (CFS) has tapped two fund managers to oversee its Australian equities and infrastructure strategies. ClearBridge Investments is now sub-advising a listed infrastructure mandate on the FirstChoice platform. ClearBridge declined to ...

Super fund adds to Payden & Rygel mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
... fixed income. "The strategy invests in a multi-sector portfolio of global government, corporate, securitised, and emerging market debt. It takes an active approach and moves dynamically across sectors and individual securities with the aim of achieving ...

Active managers outperform in limited asset classes, fall short in survivorship

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024
Active fund managers tend to outperform their passive counterparts in certain categories like Australian equity income and bonds, but the latter has better survivorship rates, according to Morningstar's latest Active/Passive Barometer report. The analysis ...

Small caps boutique merges with Conduit Group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024
Small caps investment house Spatium Capital has inked a merger agreement with Singapore's Conduit Group. Spatium Capital, based in Melbourne, is merging with Conduit Securities and Conduit Asset Management, subsidiaries of Conduit Group, as both parties ...