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Pinnacle affiliate launches offshore version of smaller companies fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
... market exchanges. The strategy, which has US$300 million invested assets, aims to outperform the MSCI World Small Cap Net Index. Since its inception in June 2022, the Australian unit trust version of the fund has returned 18.7% per annum after fees (in ...

Div 296 must proceed to strengthen 'fairness' in superannuation: ASFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
Ahead of the federal election, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has urged all contesting parties to consider its recommendations to "protect and strengthen" the super sector. The peak body is calling for specific reforms in ...

VanEck to intro RMBS, India ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2025
... Leaders ETF (ASX: GRIN) provides exposure to high-growth Indian companies, tracking the MarketGrader India Growth Leaders 50 Index. "India is carving out a niche in the global investment landscape and becoming a rising investment destination. The key ...

ClearBridge launches three active ETFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2025
... France, Italy and Canada. It aims to provide regular and stable income and to outperform the benchmark, being an accumulation index comprising the OECD G7 Inflation Index plus 5.5% per annum. ClearBridge head of APAC business development Matt Bushby ...

Acadian AM launches EM equity fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2025
... and differentiating feature if positioned alongside higher risk concentrated strategies or a possible replacement for an index allocation, given the fund is actively managed and competitively priced at a management cost of 0.47% which is lower than existing ...

NGS Super to launch lifetime income product

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2025
... who have already retired are living a happy life. That's according to the second annual Challenger Retirement Happiness Index. The index, surveying some 1633 Australians aged over 60 to track factors driving retirement happiness, highlighted that pre-retirees ...

GSFM, Munro branch out to New Zealand

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... the circular economy and energy efficiency. It also aims to achieve a return greater than the MSCI All Country World (Net) Index in $NZ (Net) over a five- to seven-year period. Having launched in 2021, the Munro Climate Change Leaders Fund has returned ...

Future Group positions super offerings for growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025
... leadership, and inclusivity. The new option focused on gender equity will screen for the same five thematics as its Gender Equity Index does: gender pay parity, anti-sexual harassment and workplace safety policies and practices; formal commitments to ...

Short-term noise reinforces long-term investment thinking: ART

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025
... recent tariff announcements. In the lead up to the event, major stock market indices lost billions in value, with the S&P 500 Index dropping as much as 6%, on the back of the trade war. Parker warned that risks of a major global downturn has dramatically ...

US pension funds haemorrhage US$249bn

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... public markets the hardest, however, losses have occurred in all asset classes. Notably, the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index, a common benchmark for fixed income investments, has fallen 1.3% since the changes to US tax and trade policies. Since then ...