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Super moves: QIC, VFMC, ESSSuper, Aware Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
Vivian Xu has joined Victorian Fund Management Corporation to work on quant strategies across global markets. Xu arrived from Frontier Advisers, where she was promoted to the new quantitative research consultant within the capital markets and asset ...

The top-performing (and worst) asset classes of the past year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
Mercer's annual periodic table, which charts 17 major asset classes investment returns on an annual basis over the last decade, reveals that there's few reliable themes, except that greater risk tends to be rewarded by greater return. Equity ...

Australian private capital sector totals $139bn: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
Total Australia-focused assets under management (AUM) remained steady at $139 billion in 2024, with private equity, venture capital (VC), and private credit funds accounting for nearly half at $65 billion, according to the Australian Private Capital ...

Platinum merger no cure for active managers' challenges

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
... shareholders would own 75% of the merged entity. At a price of $0.57 per share, the transaction would imply a combined valuation of roughly $1.3 billion.

Global X China Tech ETF in the works

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
Global X is preparing to launch a China technology ETF, citing the country's shift from policy planning to delivery, stabilising fundamentals and depressed valuations, while also emphasising the critical nature of selective exposure. Ahead of the launch ...

TWC bolsters investment team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... by former executives from PGIM, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, has developed a genuinely different cashflow-based valuation style for building an equities portfolio, and this appointment will help strengthen its investment process. TWC said that with ...

REITs see best start versus equities in a decade: Principal AM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
Listed real estate investment trusts (REITs) are off to one of their strongest starts relative to equities in the past decade, according to Principal Asset Management, which sees the asset class as a compelling opportunity for navigating a challenging ...

Global X to launch AI infrastructure ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... gains. Adjusted for inflation, gold's all-time high actually stands at US$3,459, set in 1980-meaning its current valuation could still be well within reason. If equity markets continue to experience turbulence, there is a possibility we could see ...

Ex-MLC private equity exec joins Melbourne boutique

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... worked with the mergers and acquisitions teams at Commonwealth Bank and Macquarie Capital, focusing on due diligence, valuation and investment risk. At Macquarie Capital, Zimmermann managed private capital programs exceeding $5.5 billion and executed ...

Mantis to distribute new micro cap offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
Mantis Funds has secured a distribution deal with Balmoral Investors, taking its micro cap strategy to market. Mantis Funds will distribute the Balmoral Investors Micro Cap Fund to wholesale investors, offering access to quality ASX-listed micro caps ...