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Australian Unity chief retires

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025
... Friendly Society, Lifeplan Australia Friendly Society, Home Care NSW, Greengate Partnership, Insignia Financial's investment bonds division, and most recently aged care provider myHomecare last year, for which it will pay $285 million. Chung said Mead's ...

Asian family office sets up in Melbourne

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... finance. He sees second and third-generation high-net-worth clients who want to do more with their wealth than invest in bonds, equities, and property. The focus on capital markets will enable the new firm to offer a wider range of investment options ...

Wilson AM to launch first monthly LIC strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... actively managed selection of high-quality, cash-generating stocks, complemented by a core allocation of investment-grade bonds... [and] helps reduce volatility while broadening the equity universe beyond a traditional dividend-harvesting strategy." ...

Industry must do more to improve women's financial literacy: Fidelity

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... never invested at all, compared to 90% of men who have invested. Women (22%) are also less likely to invest in shares or bonds than men (31%) and they are less likely to consolidate debts and diversify their investments. Fidelity International head of ...

Vanguard launches two new diversified ETFs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... investors looking for regulator income with some capital growth potential, blending investment grade fixed income, corporate bonds, and high dividend yield equities. VDIF has exposure to over 12,000 securities, allocating 40% to defensive assets and ...

GDG sees profits soar $74m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2025
... merger with Lonsec Investment Solutions with a combined funds under management (FUM) of over $25 billion. GDG's investment bonds offering saw sales grow 29% year on year, contributing to a FUM increase of 27% to $3.8 billon. GDG announced it would acquire ...

Northern Trust lands another mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... billion ( as of 31 January 2025 ) of Generation Life's portfolio assets, including domestic and international equities, bonds, FX, and SICAVs. "Northern Trust's position as one of Australia's leading asset servicing providers allows us to dedicate resources ...

Super fund investment in US to skyrocket

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... expected to more than double from $0.4 trillion to $1 trillion." Most of the current investment in the US is in equities and bonds, although Australian super funds already have significant investments in US infrastructure, real estate, and private equity ...

MLC wary of but not opposed to bitcoin

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... performance. Using the same methodology and looking only at months when shares performed best, bitcoin tended to outperform shares, bonds, and gold. "When shares perform poorly, bitcoin's price has typically fallen even harder. When the share market ...

Next decade could bring back the conservative portfolio

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
... higher inflation, is the fact that interest rates have now risen to more normal levels. I could buy a portfolio of government bonds and actually hope to get a positive, real return. I couldn't have done that five years ago. "So, we're actually ...