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Social media influencers charged for promoting shady investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
Reality TV stars from shows like Love Island, Geordie Shore, and The Only Way Is Essex are due to face Court for pushing unauthorised investment schemes on their followers. Love Island's Biggs Chris, Jamie Clayton, Rebecca Gormley and Eva Zapico ...

Magellan advances MGF conversion to open class

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
... MGF's NAV per unit as of May 16 was $2.24. It invests in a concentrated portfolio of 20-40 companies and seeks to achieve risk-adjusted not benchmark-relative returns. MGF aims to deliver 9% p.a. net of fees over the economic cycle. Top holdings ...

Value versus growth: Market expectations in 2024

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2024
... due to housing issues. "The market is now anticipating a couple of rate cuts and a smooth landing," she said. However, the risk remains if inflation stays high. While the market is optimistic, inflationary pressures must be considered. If a less benign ...

Macquarie Asset Management launches low-cost active ETFs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2024
... opportunity for a view on every company in an investible universe. "Our aim with these new ETFs is to build a stable, more risk aware and balanced fund portfolio with significantly reduced impact from human bias," he said. Meanwhile, MSI co-head Benjamin ...

CalSTRS appoints chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2024
The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) has named a chief investment officer to succeed Christopher Ailman, who announced his retirement in January after a long tenure. Scott Chan, who's served as deputy chief investment officer since ...

Price dislocations pave way for active managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... be less favourable from an active management standpoint. "While there a lot of uncertainties, given a lot of some of the risk coming through, we are actually seeing that spread widening out, which means that this is a particular market environment that ...

The rising role and risks of generative AI

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... institution hasn't yet built or rolled out these models, that's probably a good thing in terms of latency and understanding the risk profile of this," he said. Despite standout examples of early adoption, such as Microsoft's investment in OpenAI, the ...

Members' attitude, behaviour key to better engagement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... retirement," she said. "Demographic analysis is not enough. Funds must continue to innovate, to effectively engage with at-risk segments. And it starts with sound insights." Further, members indicated that the top three areas where they want to see improvement ...

Australia requires swifter settlement cycle: SIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
Australia is at risk of getting left behind if it does not adopt the T+1 settlement cycle along with major global financial centres, according to operations experts who spoke at the Stockbrokers and Investment Advisers Association Conference (SIAA) ...

Industry reacts to Federal Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... and fuel bills. Cost of living relief The Budget delivered broad-based cost-of-living support, but its spending measures risk stoking inflation, the Committee for Economic Development (CEDA) said. "While its previous Budgets struck a good balance between ...
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