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La Trobe debuts first ASX-listed investment product

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
La Trobe Financial, the Brookfield-owned alternative asset manager with $20 billion in assets under management, has launched its first fund on the ASX. The IPO seeks to raise between $100 million and $300 million, with units priced at $2.00. La Trobe ...

Franklin Templeton, Pendal funds shutter

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... to provide investors with exposure to the growth of emerging markets infrastructure securities and to outperform the benchmark, being the S&P Emerging Markets Infrastructure Index. The Martin Currie Property Securities Fund was incepted on 31 December ...

Why emotions, cash derail good investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
While we know that during turbulent times it is critical not to let emotions get in the way of investing, an investment expert and former policymaker says it is equally important to remain active and not lean in on cash. Amid the volatility and frenetic ...

Inside Colonial First State's fund manager selection overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... performance test. Lam told Financial Standard that the team identified "a lot of unintended risk" from concentrated, very benchmark-agnostic approaches, prompting what he described as a "clipping of the wings." CFS previously had managers who invested ...

SMC highlights long-term benefits of investing in private markets

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
Super Members Council (SMC) has submitted a paper in response to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) discussion paper, outlining how superannuation investments in the private sector can drive long-term financial system stability ...

Benchmark-clinging passive investors risk meagre returns: Perpetual

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... scale has begun to distort broader market dynamics. "... worryingly, market regulators believe in the purity of the benchmark and are potentially overlooking the growing systemic risk that it poses. This sets the stage for a disorderly market sell-off ...

NZ Super appoints inaugural chief operating officer

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... according to GlobalSWF's annual rankings. In FY24, the fund reported a mammoth return of 14.94%, outperforming its benchmark by some 9.3%.

Labor vs Liberal: Which government is better for Australian stocks?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... financial crisis which had an enormous bearing on the woeful stock market performance of his tenure." He said a better benchmark might be to compare the performance of the Australian market against global equities. That helps control for broader external ...

TPD claim settlements take 'considerably longer': Rainmaker

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
New group insurance research finds that total permanent disability (TPD) claims are taking much longer to process, while death claims appear to have more efficient processes in place. According to Rainmaker's latest benchmarking data, a total of ...

Future Fund muscles past annual target return, lags in March quarter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... delivered a 7.9% return for the year to March 31, topping its annual target; though its quarterly performance undershot the benchmark. The sovereign wealth fund returned 1.2% for the March quarter, below the 1.9% target. However, over the long run, the ...