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Rest lands new chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... decision to merge followed a board review of Qantas Super's size, growth trajectory, and legislative and regulatory environment, along with broader superannuation industry trends, including the decline of corporate super funds. Prior to Qantas Super ...

Size of super impacting capital markets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... markets." Lee said this increasing turnover makes it "challenging and difficult for IPOs". "I think we need to have an environment which means all sectors of the market have the opportunity to participate, because small companies aren't typically ...

Canadian Securities Exchange to acquire National Stock Exchange of Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... investors liquid, reliable and well-regulated services. "We believe in a strong, accountable and transparent regulatory environment underpinned by rules rather than opaque 'precedent-based' decision-making around waivers and other governance matters." ...

RBA cut expected, but then what?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... indicators. "The macroeconomic picture will continue to dominate, and the events of the past month have reminded us that the environment that we are in now, geopolitical risk and policy risk is a key feature," Hennessy said. "Coming into this, it looked ...

Relaxed superannuation preservation rules will sink returns: Frontier

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... of assets for withdrawals. A sustained policy change to preservation rules would create a new "business-as-usual" environment for funds, forcing them to reassess liquidity management strategies, including the buffers needed to navigate stress events ...

Inside Colonial First State's fund manager selection overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
Colonial First State (CFS) managed the two best-performing MySuper options over the year to March 31. The wealth management and superannuation provider's head of equities Ben Lam explains the "art and science" behind its recently evolved manager ...

Lendlease looks at royal joint venture

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
... support the UK towards a net zero carbon and energy-secure future, take a leading role in stewarding the UK's natural environment and help to create inclusive communities through its activities supporting economic growth and productivity.

Bennelong partners with Allspring for fund launch

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
Bennelong Funds Management has partnered with Allspring Global Investments to distribute its global income strategy across Australia and New Zealand. Bennelong expects to launch the Allspring Global Income Fund as a unit trust in June this year, offering ...

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

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... delivered a "stellar" 25% return, buoyed by a resilient economy, corporate earnings growth and a favourable interest rate environment. The dominance of the Magnificent Seven, which benefited from increased investment in AI, cloud computing, and digital ...

Australian private capital sector totals $139bn: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... attractive asset class among global private wealth investors due to its "floating rate" properties in a high-interest rate environment, with managers increasingly creating open-ended private credit funds to target investors in Australia, the report said. ...