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REITs see best start versus equities in a decade: Principal AM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
Listed real estate investment trusts (REITs) are off to one of their strongest starts relative to equities in the past decade, according to Principal Asset Management, which sees the asset class as a compelling opportunity for navigating a challenging ...

Australian equity fund manager in a league of its own: Mercer survey

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
An Australian equity fund manager has run circles around its rivals over the year to March, according to Mercer's most recent investment survey. The Forager Funds Management Australian Shares Fund returned 21.7% before fees, outperforming all 123 investment ...

Global X to launch AI infrastructure ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
Global X is launching the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure ETF (ASX: AINF), which focuses on companies with exposure to data centres, energy and materials that help facilitate the adoption of AI technologies. Launching on the ASX this month, AINF ...

ASIC loses Block Earner case

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
... that Earner was neither a financial product, managed investment scheme, or derivative under definitions of the Corporations Act. The now-defunct Earner product was offered from 17 March 2022 until 16 November 2022. It enabled customers to loan specified ...

Funds SA deputy investment chief to depart

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
Funds SA will soon bid farewell to its deputy chief investment officer and director of equities. After seven years with the fund, Matthew Kempton is leaving to take up a new opportunity in Melbourne with an industry super fund. Kempton first joined ...

Advisers seek investment philosophy, performance in managed accounts provider

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
Investment philosophy and portfolio performance are the main reasons why financial advisers have chosen their managed accounts provider, new research from Zenith Investment Partners show. The Unlocking Advice Efficiencies in 2025 report found that half ...

Corporate fund selects Mercer Super for SFT

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2025
One of the few remaining corporate super funds, the Goldman Sachs & JBWere Superannuation Fund, will be merged into Mercer Super from next month. In September 2024, the trustee for the Goldman Sachs & JBWere Superannuation Fund - BEST Superannuation ...

Macquarie divests North America, Europe asset management units to Nomura

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2025
Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) will sell its North American and European public investments business that comprise equities, fixed income, and multi-asset offerings to Nomura for $2.8 billion. The business, which is based in Philadelphia, has about ...

Warakirri adds kiwifruit aggregation to farmland fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2025
Warakirri Asset Management has added a 200-hectare aggregation of three orchards, mainly kiwifruit, with some nashi and corella pears as well as jujubes, to its farmland fund. The manager paid $33 million for the orchards in the Goulburn Valley region ...

Spender criticises Labor's 'lack of urgency' on advice reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
Ahead of the federal election on May 3, independent member for Wentworth Allegra Spender criticised the government for its lack of action on urgent advice reforms. Speaking at the Financial Advice Association Australia's (FAAA) federal election ...