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VFMC farewells asset allocation lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... head of investment strategy and research management at Allard Partners, an Asian-focused, long-only, high conviction equities fund manager. During her career, Taylor has held roles with IAG, Merrill Lynch, Westpac and the Reserve Bank of Australia. In ...

HNWIs, family offices embracing private real estate credit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... Rivkin's assets under management, with a larger focus on alternative investments. Silitonga said it has reduced exposure in equities and allocated more capital to alternative asset classes, in particular private credit, half of which is real estate ...

Investors 'ignoring' volatility: Schroders

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... the developed world, is grappling with stagnating productivity growth and GDP per capita," Schroders head of Australian equities Martin Conlon said. "Fiscal imbalances are obvious, with governments showing little intention of aligning spending with tax ...

Commonwealth Super awards sustainable credit mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2025
... Osmosis have been working together since 2020 when the super fund first mandated the sustainable manager via its global equities portfolio. As at May 2025, that investment, which focuses on companies using water and energy efficiently, has delivered ...

Most Hostplus options achieve double-digit returns

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2025
... the Indexed product. Hostplus chief investment officer Sam Sicilia said the results came down to continued growth in equities and the decent performance of unlisted investments. "Hostplus' investment performance, in the context of this year's investment ...

MySuper delivers 10.3% in FY25

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2025
... that this was driven by strong positive returns posted by all asset classes, but much of the heavy lifting was done by equities," Rainmaker said. "The S&P ASX 200 index delivered 13.8% for the financial year, while international equities significantly ...

Section 899 ditched but companies face tax uncertainties

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025
... the way investors are thinking about allocating to markets and therefore countries, she said, foreseeing that European equities would likely benefit from the frenzy. "What we've seen since the GFC is European investor allocations to the US rising ...

Platinum executives depart amid merger talks

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... five years, he left the asset manager, and did a short stint in Singapore, helping to build Standard Chartered's equities broking business. But, Isles returned to work with Kerr Neilson in 2013 as an investment specialist, bolstering the firm's ...

Gold ETFs outshine large caps: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... 35.7% p.a. Loftus Peak's Global Disruption Active ETF turned in 20.9% p.a. Over the period, however, emerging markets equities was the top-performing asset class, with a 14.7% p.a. median return. Large-cap equities international made 14.5% p.a. and domestic ...

Instos turn to risk as volatility lessens: State Street

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... Their allocation to stocks has surpassed the start of the year's highs by the end of June," Veitmane said. "Within equities, we have seen consistent buying of US stocks, with majority of the buying concentrated in technology sector. Buying of energy ...