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'Growing revenues, not AUM, is the new name of the game': ISS

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
The relationship between assets under management (AUM) and revenue growth has broken down as fund buyers - both retail and institutional - increasingly embrace lower-fee index funds. This comes as interest in more expensive active strategies appears ...

The investment managers winning the biggest mandates

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
Some investment managers still scored large mandates despite an overall nosedive in appointments by not-for-profit super funds. Alphinity, which manages $31.39 billion of Australian-sourced funds, was awarded a $2.92 billion international equites mandate ...

Job mobility falls for first time in three years

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
Australia's job mobility rate has fallen for the first time in three years, back to around its pre-pandemic level, according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). ABS head of labour statistics Bjorn Jarvis said in the 12 months ...

Aware Super delivers 11.02% to default members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
Aware Super's default High Growth investment option returned 11.02% for FY24, home to about 70% of its membership. The High Growth accumulation option - a lifecycle product - is Aware's default offering and has more than 750,000 of its 1.1 million members ...

Prime Financial Group adds to c-suite with new role

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024
Prime Financial Group has appointed James Lake to the newly created position of chief growth officer and Andrea Slingsby as independent non-executive director. Prime said both appointments are key to its next phase of growth as the group continues work ...

TCorp moves to new OneFund structure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2024
As previously flagged, the New South Wales government is moving forward with plans to consolidate several separate investment funds managed by TCorp. In September last year, the state government announced it was reviewing the way NSW's investment funds ...

'Little prospect' for RBA hike despite stubborn inflation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will almost certainly leave the policy rate unchanged when it meets next week, according to economists. GSFM investment strategist Stephen Miller said there was "little prospect" of a change in messaging from the ...

Recession signs: Economic growth has 'ground to a halt'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
While the 0.1% increase in quarterly GDP was in line with experts' expectations, it still paints a dire picture for Australia's economic path. Annual GDP growth has fallen to just 1.1%, the slowest rate of annual growth in GDP in more than three ...

ETFs dominate client portfolios: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are dominating client portfolios as nine out of 10 financial advisers continue to recommend them to clients, a new study shows. The 2024 Trends in Investing report reveals that more than 60% of advisers will up clients' ...

Super fund engagement peaks among members with $250k+ balances: Report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2024
An Investment Trends report has identified a clear inflection point for member engagement with superannuation funds. The 2024 Super Member Engagement report, based on a survey of 10,886 respondents, provided an analysis of member attitudes, satisfaction ...