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Perpetual funds down amid market decline

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2022
... all but two of our equity funds across Barrow Hanley and our Australian equities team in Perpetual Asset Management Australia outperforming their benchmarks over three years." Of the Barrow Hanley and Australian equity strategies, 92% outperformed their ...

Australia's size problem: VanEck

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2022
... and managing director Asia Pacific Arian Neiron commented: "While single factor strategies work in global markets, in Australia they don't work so well as the universe of companies is too small, too concentrated and there is a lack of variability over ...

Review of YFYS receives mixed response

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
... MySuper products for 12 months has been introduced. Favouring the review, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) welcomed the government's announcement. ASFA chief executive Martin Fahy said: "The review is timely and appropriate. ...

Forrest family hires former ART portfolio manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
Bruce Tomlinson has joined Andrew and Nicola Forrest's Minderoo Foundation as investment director after recently leaving Australian Retirement Trust. In the new role, the former ART portfolio manager will report to John Hartman, the chief investment ...

Performance test expansion paused as government announces review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
... Australasia (RIAA) annual conference in April. In a speech to RIAA, Jones called out an "alarming anomaly, where the benchmark will essentially drive faith-based investing out of the market which is a perverse outcome for a government which purports ...

Median MySuper returns of -2.8% expected

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2022
... remained steady at 0.95, demonstrating the overwhelming hold equities have as a driver for returns. Over five years, the benchmark return for MySuper options sits at 6.0%, while over 10 years it's 7.9%. The predictions come as AustralianSuper reports ...

IFM Investors launches climate transition fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2022
... requirements, IFM said. The pooled fund targets a 50% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030 relative to 2019 benchmark levels, and Scope 3 emissions through reduced exposure to carbon intensive companies and taking overweight positions in companies ...

Talaria appoints sales director

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2022
... firm's business development team. Based in Talaria's Sydney office, Dowling will cover New South Wales and Western Australia to help drive the continued growth of the Talaria Global Equity Fund in those states. Prior to Talaria, he worked for ...

A playbook for private markets

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2022
... appropriate position size." Meanwhile, Schroders head of private debt Nicole Kidd spoke of its "meteoritic rise and rise". "In Australia, investors are still seeing value in allocating to private debt, and a number of private debt managers has been established ...

Qantas Super invests $2bn in Calvert, Goldman Sachs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2022
... target, Qantas Super said that during phase one it will research available low carbon benchmarks and recommend a suitable benchmark to implement across its listed equities portfolio. It will also establish principles for any new private market investments ...