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Investment down as uncertainty rises

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2025
... the recent low in early 2024 to the current reading in early 2025, the report said. This has continued a longer-running trend which has seen the average level of uncertainty increase after key economic disruptions such as the global financial crisis ...

Hamilton Lane closes venture fund at $615m

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2025
... disruptive technologies, including AI. "Specifically, the opportunity set within the secondary market is robust, as the trend of companies staying private longer persists, causing existing shareholders to seek alternative methods of liquidity," Pellini ...

Fixed income drives managed fund surge

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
... million in outflows. However, since Australia lagged on ESG investing relative to other markets, this could be a lagging trend. Globally, ESG equity funds saw withdrawals of $4.5 billion while non-ESG added a net $9.8 billion. "Equity funds staged a ...

TenCap hedge fund eyes $3bn AUM

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025
... a lot of time from large caps, because of being early. One of the things that we pride ourselves on is being early in a trend, whether it's a structural trend or whether it's cyclical or it's company earnings. We want to be early," she said. ...

SMA registrations double in three years: Data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2025
... products were registered in the quarter. He said this is in line with the rolling five-year average, indicating a consistent trend of new product issuance. "While overall registrations for the December quarter are in line with the five-year rolling average ...

Quant fund hires from JP Morgan

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... leadership team and driving future growth," he said. "We've now delivered a 5-year track record with the ECCM Systemic Trend Fund program, with investor returns of 108% over that period, or 15.8% on an annualised basis1," said Havryliv, a former ...

Quant fund taps new chief executive

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
... joining ECCM. I'm looking forward to driving the expansion of ECCM's growth, building on the success of the ECCM Systemic Trend Fund to date," Haslinger said. Notably, ECCM's flagship fund, the Systemic Trend Fund, employs a proprietary directional futures ...

Global dividend strength to continue: Plato

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
Dividend growth trends in international equities are expected to continue in 2025 after global developed market countries paid out $485 million in dividends in Q4 2024, according to a new report by Plato Investment Management. This was an 8.3% increase ...

Ethical investment holdings double: CoreData

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
The number of high-net-worth (HNW), core affluent, and mass affluent investors holding ethical and sustainable investments has roughly doubled over the past year, according CoreData. The CoreData research obtained by Financial Standard seeks to capture ...

ETFs, global equities dominate retail portfolios: Data

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
A new report from Investment Trends highlighted the growing prominence of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and international equities in retail investors' portfolios, but highlighted a lack of understanding around trading costs. The Investment Trends 2024 ...