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Market turmoil hits portfolios

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
... chief executive Arian Neiron said the tariff announcement has marked a sudden change in investor sentiment. "It was only a few months ago that American exceptionalism was the topic du jour and the appetite for US assets with a negative equity risk premium ...

Fortitude Investment Partners acquires majority stake in SMSF audit firm

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
... improve ASF Audits' client experience and accelerate future growth; the primary capital investment will be allocated to a few key business areas, including technology and automation, acquisitions, and talents. Conversely, the deal adds to Fortitude's ...

ASIC tiptoes around private markets intervention

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
... my mind, we can't really do that, and this really goes to the heart of the public-private markets paper we published a few weeks ago. We really can't be a player on that question unless we know what's going on and are open minded and prepared ...

Life insurers keep breaking their own rules: Report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
Breaches of the Life Insurance Code of Practice (the Code) increased for a fourth consecutive year, with life insurers reporting 14,670 instances of non-compliance, a 19% increase from the previous period. The Code, the industry's north star for good ...

New tax cuts for every Australian 'a complete joke': UNSW

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... to well exceed a trillion dollars, and the interest cost on that bill is going from $28 billion to nearly $40 billion in a few years' time," he said. Supplementing these tax measures, the government also announced it will retrospectively raise the ...

Resolution Capital to list second active ETF

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
Resolution Capital will add another active ETF to its product lineup next week. The Resolution Capital Global Listed Infrastructure Fund - Active ETF (RIIF) will launch on the ASX on Tuesday, March 25. The new offering provides direct listed access ...

Vanguard ETFs record most consistent monthly net flows: Research

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
Vanguard ETFs have recorded the most consistent inflows of any manager over the past two years, according to Rainmaker Information. Over the two years to December 2024, monthly net flows to its ETFs showed an autocorrelation of 0.59 - a statistical ...

Canada pension fund hires ex-CalPERS CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... System, where he was investment chief for 18 months. Having worked at Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers, he was one of the few investment professionals at CalPERS with Wall street experience. He famously overhauled CalPERS' investment portfolio ...

Clean energy strategies a gateway to long-term growth

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025
... transition to clean energy as a growth opportunity. This comes despite fossil fuels remaining more profitable in the next few years. Willis head of natural resources for the Pacific Mathew Frost said in mining, 71% of companies ranked growth a driver ...

Underperforming managers in China could see pay halved

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
... China's mutual fund industry continued to grow and attract global asset managers like Fidelity International Ltd. in the past few years, many products underperformed, hurting client trust and hampering fund raisings," the article read. "Investors ...