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Family offices favour real estate: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
The world's richest families love to invest in real estate more than any other asset classes, a new analysis shows, as more than half feature property in their portfolios. The research conducted by familyofficehub, a provider of global family office ...

Future Fund veteran takes on new gig

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... While leading the Future Fund's efforts to understand the complexities of investing in emerging markets across all asset classes, Thorburn also looked after research and insights. The investment professional was a senior member of the in-house strategy ...

ECCM recruits operating chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... foreign exchange, fixed income and commodities. ECCM aims to deliver returns with low correlation to traditional asset classes. "It's an exciting time at ECCM," Haslinger continued. The chief executive noted that the fund has chalked up investor ...

VanEck to intro RMBS, India ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2025
... investors in the current environment. Residential mortgage-backed securities are one of the fastest growing fixed income asset classes in Australia, reaching a record $59.2 billion of issuance in 2024, VanEck chief executive and managing director Arian ...

Webull launches SMSF account offering

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... compared to APRA-regulated funds once balances reach $200,000. Webull said listed shares and cash are the two biggest asset classes for SMSFs in Australia, which has resulted in greater demand for services that support these investments.

Short-term noise reinforces long-term investment thinking: ART

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025
... 12 months. We focus a lot more of our research effort and portfolio management thinking on how the world and how asset classes are likely to evolve over the next five, 10, 15 and 20 years." The average age of an ART member is about 40, which means that ...

US pension funds haemorrhage US$249bn

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... imports and higher rates on select countries, has hit public markets the hardest, however, losses have occurred in all asset classes. Notably, the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index, a common benchmark for fixed income investments, has fallen 1.3% since ...

Cbus plays it steady amid rocky start to the year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
... year, so far, we haven't made any major changes the portfolio. We're doing a bit of deployment in the private market asset classes, and we're holding slightly less equities..." he said. Cbus has been doing some capital deployment into infrastructure ...

Which fund managers are making the most from investor fees?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... managed funds - to build sophisticated portfolios. "As a result, our broad range of funds are being adopted across asset classes including equities, bonds, and other assets as our innovative investment solutions help our clients meet their portfolio ...

Platinum funds merger to go ahead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025
... exchange traded funds, such as PAXX, have become the clear retail investor preference for all but niche, less liquid asset classes such as real estate, private equity and private credit," Platinum said. "The vast majority of closed ended vehicles investing ...