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MFS expands Australian offering with contrarian strategy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2025
MFS Investment Management has expanded its equity product offering for Australian wholesale and institutional investors with the launch of the MFS Global Contrarian Equity Trust. The new trust follows MFS' Contrarian Capital global investment strategy ...

Local challenger enters Australia's ETF market

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
... launched ETF Shares after observing a greater proliferation of ETF issuers overseas and identifying a lack of choice for Australian consumers in the local market. Man noted that Australia currently has six ETF issuers - BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street ...

Federal Court hammers defunct advice firm with $11m penalty

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
... size of today's penalty demonstrates the seriousness of this misconduct." ASIC cancelled Equiti Financial Service's Australian financial services licence in November last year.

ASX launches review into shareholder approvals

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has launched a review into listing rules related to shareholder approval requirements, particularly when it comes to mergers and acquisitions. The ASX said due to "heightened investor interest" around the James ...

Super moves: Aware Super, Future Fund, Cbus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... 2021. Finally, Cbus Super has welcomed Mark Fagan to the board of directors. Currently, Fagan is operating chief at The Australian Workers' Union. The super fund noted: "Mark brings extensive skills to the board, including in regulatory and legislative ...

Future Fund veteran takes on new gig

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... emerging economies. Thorburn joined the Future Fund after 13 years working for both the Commonwealth Treasury and the Australian Office of Financial Management, Australia's sovereign debt manager.

TWC bolsters investment team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... developed quantitative strategies and products, particularly for equities. ​While in London, she also worked with Australian institutional investors. Before her current role, she was a portfolio manager for the global options strategy at Kokomo Capital ...

UK watchdog to open Australian office

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... Investment Management for close to three years and held the same role at Aviva Investors for two years before that. A native Australian, early in her career Blackburn worked in regulatory risk at Macquarie Bank and spent five years in the investment ...

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 ...

Sidra Capital expands in Australia

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
Sidra Capital is expanding into the Australian market via the launch of a private credit fund that invests in the local mining and energy sectors. Headquartered in Saudi Arabia, the Shariah-compliant alternative fund manager is making its Sidra Asia ...