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Scientific Beta offers portfolio solution to institutional investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
... address this by using targeted instruments that help realign overall exposures with strategic investment goals. It added that rather than seeking to replace institutional investors' existing investments, completion portfolios complement their core holdings ...

APRA expects 'no cutting corners' with CPS230

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
... transformation Mike Devine told the briefing that the "true test of CPS 230 is your preparedness and how you can respond, rather than simply reacting to events." "While, yes, it's a prudential standard, and there is a need for compliance against ...

Managed fund inflows jump over 20x: Report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... major events, like the Liberation Day tariffs in April, and ensuing market volatility that tested global markets. In fact, rather than retreating, local investors leaned into the volatility, adding $3.15 billion across all asset classes that month. This ...

En garde: New fund eyes Vanguard, Betashares' turf

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... that can fit all the different buckets in a client's portfolio," Jocum said. It wants to be "relevant to more clients," rather than being seen purely as a thematic and commodities-focused shop. This idea to diversify its business has been informed by ...

Future Fund cleared to manage select asset classes in-house

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... noting that the decision to manage certain asset classes internally "shouldn't be seen as particularly significant," rather framing it as "an optionality for us to consider." "We do not anticipate a significant shift away from the way in which we ...

Pacific workers face barriers to claiming super: University

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... interests," Whait said. "After visiting PALM worker locations, we were left with the impression that many PALM workers would rather have immediate access to their money to help their families and communities now, rather than wait for retirement. "Further ...

Super tax requires a 'holistic' review: ASA

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... be owed by the estate." Waterhouse also raised concerns over defined benefit pensions, which are assessed using formulas rather than actual account balances, meaning many public sector employees and politicians "will not be affected". "This creates a ...

Lower interest rates conducive for bigger risk appetite, small caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... to 4.25% in May. "Interest rates reducing are good for small caps, because small companies tend to borrow shorter term rather than longer term," he explained, of about three to four years. "If you think that globalisation is being pushed back, then the ...

Super needs customised, personalised approach: FSC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
... need to be empowered to make investment decisions, to make informed choices that are aligned with their personal goals, rather than encouraged by regulation, to remain disengaged and subsequently shoehorned into default retirement products."

Global stock markets rally, but Trump's next post could flip the script

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... good for inflation, and it's not good for company earnings," he said. But, he said, the news in May was toward less rather than more tariffs. "The big one there was the negotiation of a 90-day pause with China," he said. "That reduced tariffs on ...