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Foreign investment in Australia booms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... trillion into US investments, $106 billion of which were portfolio investment transactions, likely because of booming US stock markets in 2024. This was followed by the UK with $698 billion and the EU with $478 billion.

ETF Shares introduces three ETFs on Cboe

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
ETF Shares will debut three ETFs on Cboe Australia tomorrow in a bid to stake a claim in the "highly concentrated" market. ETFS US Quality ETF (BEST), ETFS US Technology ETF (WWW) and ETFS Magnificent 7+ ETF (HUGE) all invest in US shares and charge ...

The top Australian small-cap fund, year after year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... process - they're looking at a company, building a model, speaking to suppliers, competitors, and customers. They write up a stock thesis, they present it to myself and [Ophir co-founder] Stephen [Ng], we discuss it, and then work out the weight. It's ...

New Forests buys into Burapha

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2025
New Forests has acquired a majority interest in Burapha Agro-Forestry, a timber plantation forestry company in Laos. New Forests' Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2 (TAFF2) together with Mirova's sustainable land use strategy have invested in Burapha ...

Super moves: Aware Super, Future Fund, Cbus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
Michael Newbold has quit his role as head of aviation commercial at Sydney Airport and returned to the investment community focusing once again on transport and infrastructure. After seven years at Australia's biggest and most profitable airport ...

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 ...

Australian equity fund manager in a league of its own: Mercer survey

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
An Australian equity fund manager has run circles around its rivals over the year to March, according to Mercer's most recent investment survey. The Forager Funds Management Australian Shares Fund returned 21.7% before fees, outperforming all 123 investment ...

Prime Financial Group buys Lincoln Indicators

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2025
... Growth Fund. It means a 10x increase in the number of HNWs Prime Financial Group deals with, it said. Lincoln Indicators runs Stock Doctor, which provides quantitative research identifying both stocks with downside risk and Star Stocks, those Lincoln ...

Equity Story to buy advisory firm Baker Young

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2025
Stock market trading advice group Equity Story will acquire Adelaide-based advisory firm Baker Young for $4.2 million in cash, as it looks to expand its wealth management footprint. The transaction is expected to be earnings-accretive and "meaningfully ...

Macquarie divests North America, Europe asset management units to Nomura

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2025
... About 50% of the business comes from equities, 40% from fixed income and 10% is multi-asset. Nomura will acquire 100% of the stock in the three companies for an all-cash purchase transaction. Half the investors are retail, 35% are from the insurance ...