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Ziller launches Global Fund Active ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2026
... leverages the Ziller Global Fund strategy, which invests in a concentrated portfolio of 15 to 25 high growth global companies led by their founders and can allocate up to 10% to cash or cash equivalents at any given time. Perennial Investment Management ...

UniSuper faces fresh greenwashing allegation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2026
... the investment criteria of the GEO option was watered down significantly in March 2025, enabling greater investment in companies that do not align with its 'sustainable' label. Effective 28 March 2025, thresholds for companies to qualify for ...

Blue Owl sells US$1.4bn assets to pension funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2026
... worth of assets from several private credit strategies and sold them to four unnamed major pension funds and insurance companies. The redemption includes US$600 million of direct lending investments from Blue Owl Capital Corporation II (OBDC II), and ...

Advisers at the forefront of elder financial abuse prevention

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2026
... often carers or family members. "The most common is family members. My roles previously have included working in trustee companies and in trustee companies, we have a lot of clients where we've had to go to a local guardianship programme or have ...

Product showcase: Strength amid noise

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2026
... the fund maintains strict sector discipline by avoiding cyclical sectors. "But what we do focus on are service-based companies. Companies providing a non-discretionary service to their customers, operating with high barriers to entry, ensuring strong ...

UniSuper 'missed out' on gold rally, but for good reason: Pearce

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2026
... Bitcoin is just digital gold, I try to nod silently and just walk away." On US stocks, he highlighted American software companies losing 20% of their market value in the first two months of 2026. "Firstly, I think the sell-off in software is a bit overdone ...

MA Financial, Dimensional launch new offerings

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2026
... partnership with China Merchants Bank (CMB), while Dimensional is launching a new fund focused on highly profitable companies. The MA CMBI APAC Credit Opportunities Fund will provide institutional and ultra-high-net- worth investors with access to Asia ...

Bullish on AI? Don't buy US tech: Vanguard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2026
... economy," he said. Davis said this happens because with any general-purpose technology - which AI is - it is making other companies outside of Silicon Valley more productive. "What we learn is that general purpose technologies disrupt their own industry. ...

FIIG Securities fined $2.5m for lengthy cyber failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026
... "Cyber-attacks and data breaches are escalating in both scale and sophistication, and inadequate controls put clients and companies at real risk," ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court said. "ASIC expects financial services licensees to be on the front foot ...

Mulino acknowledges some regulation 'not thought through'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2026
... asking for each of the datasets they're asking for. But if they're asking for it in a staggered way and each of the companies has to then regenerate that data, or if they're asking for extremely similar datasets but with slightly different definitions ...