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VFMC farewells asset allocation lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... allocation advice, and investment research. Prior to Frontier Advisors, he was with Fairfax Media as head of research and valuation analyst for BRW Magazine. There he was tasked with researching and valuing assets for the magazine's various articles ...

Investors 'ignoring' volatility: Schroders

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... fuelling further asset price inflation." Conlon said Australian investors are still facing a challenging environment where valuation discipline and a focus on fundamentals are increasingly difficult to maintain, especially amid regulatory and market ...

GQG assets hit record high despite underperformance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2025
GQG Partners' assets jumped $4 billion to reach a record high of US$172.4 billion for the 2025 financial year despite experiencing "short-term relative underperformance". "We have continued to position our portfolios defensively, and as a result ...

Prime Value expands microcap fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2025
Prime Value Asset Management is opening its Prime Value Microcap Fund to retail investors. Prime Value said the fund is a newly launched retail offering, built on the same investment strategy and managed by the same team behind the former SIV Emerging ...

LGT Crestone promotes investment duo

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... an analyst at Qantas Super and Mercer. At Qantas Super, he helped develop and enhance the firm's capital market valuation frameworks and risk systems, contributing to portfolio strategy and asset allocation decisions. Additionally, as a core member ...

Local assets help deliver 12% for ART

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
Homegrown investments helped bolster returns for Australian Retirement Trust (ART) in the 2025 financial year, with some options achieving nearly 12% p.a. The $313 billion super fund with 2.43 million members delivered 11.2% p.a. for its Balanced option ...

Regal Partners adds to stable, plans hotels strategy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
Regal Partners has bought a stake in a Sydney-based real estate investment manager, as well as acquiring an Adelaide hotel to seed a new strategy. Regal Partners now owns 50% of Ark Capital Partners, a specialist hotel investment and asset management ...

DASH undertakes fresh capital raise

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
DASH Technology Group is completing a new capital raising, with its valuation surging 59%. The cloud-based financial advice and investment management platform has signed a binding legal documentation with a new, undisclosed investor as part of an ongoing ...

Increased local, international demand drives practice valuations

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... command between 1.9x and 2.5x. A book of investment and super clients aged under 64 recorded the lowest increase in valuation, growing from 2.3x-3.0x to 2.5x-3.2x in the 12 months to June 2025. In risk insurance, clients under 55 are valued at 2.5x to ...

ASIC takes action on Australian Fiduciaries

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... accuracy and compliance. To that end, the auditor is requesting more granular and detailed verification regarding the valuation of the underlying assets held by the Fund(s)."