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AFCA caps Dixon claimants at 2773

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2024
... complainants at 2773. The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) calculates that the financial advice sector will have to fund $135 million of these claims. "This highlights a deep flaw in the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR), funding ...

Magellan fund to launch as active ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2024
Magellan's Global Fund (MGF) has converted to an open-class structure that will soon trade as an active exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the ASX. On July 10, the New South Wales Supreme Court approved to convert the fund from a closed-class unit to ...

Platinum ends FY24 with $13bn FUM

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2024
Platinum Asset Management ended the 2024 financial year with $13 billion in funds under management (FUM), down nearly 30% from the prior year. The fund manager saw about $234 million exit in net flows in the month of June. The majority of this - $195 ...

'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 ...

SSGA launches new gold fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has announced the launch of the State Street Gold Fund, a new unlisted managed fund in Australia. The State Street Gold Fund seeks to track the performance of the spot gold price (LBMA Gold Price PM in Australian ...

ETFs trump active managed funds in core portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
Financial advisers are helping drive the shift to passive funds as they choose exchange-traded funds (ETFs) over active, unlisted managed funds as a core building block in clients' portfolios. According to Investment Trends head of research Irene Guiamatsia ...

Australian ETF industry blazes past $200bn

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
The Australian ETF industry has rocketed past $200 billion in assets under management, with a prominent fund manager forecasting it could grow to $500 billion by 2030. ETF market capitalisation jumped by 15.7% in the first half of 2024 to $205.3 billion. ...

UK government to establish national wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
Delivering on a key election promise, the newly installed UK government will launch a National Wealth Fund in the coming days to ramp up private sector investment in infrastructure projects. Announced overnight, the UK Infrastructure Bank and the British ...

Fiji National Provident Fund hunts active fund managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
The Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF) is seeking active fund managers to oversee two strategies. The country's superannuation fund is on the hunt for fund managers to invest on behalf of its Global Listed Developed Market Equity Strategy 1 and Global ...

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 ...