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AMP, Perpetual, Ironbark shutter funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2025
... Long Short Fund, effective September 2. "The investment manager has advised Perpetual that the fund is not at a sufficient level of funds under management to achieve the scale necessary to be commercially viable," Perpetual said. "Following a significant ...

Fewer global equity managers underperform: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
Only half of global equity funds are trailing their benchmarks, marking a substantial improvement from the 71% long-run underperformance rate, according the SPIVA Australia Scorecard half-year analysis. Fifty-four percent of global equity general funds ...

World's pension market hits $36.9tn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
The world's largest 300 pension funds have reached a new $36.9 trillion (US$24.4 trillion) record in terms of assets under management (AUM), according to a report by Willis Towers Watson's Thinking Ahead Institute. The annual Global Top 300 ...

Federal Court slaps Mawhinney with 15-year ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2025
Mayfair 101 Group director James Mawhinney has been banned from receiving or soliciting funds related to financial products for 15 years after the Federal Court determined he had a "cavalier attitude to compliance" and was "reckless" in operating his ...

NZ Super delivers 11.84%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2025
... strategies: during that time, those strategies have generated close on $20 billion more than a passive strategy with the same level of market risk would have returned. "However, we must also recognise that much of the fund's success is due to the exceptionally ...

FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... CREATE-Research chief executive Amin Rajan predicts that AI and GenAI, for their "revolutionary potential," have yet to reach the level of adoption that could visibly disrupt operating models covering core processes in their value chain, as well as the ...

Investors want regulatory clarity on digital assets: Binance

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
... high this month and it is clear that users who responded to the survey expect the price of Bitcoin to retain its current level and potentially push even higher." Further, Binance said other crypto assets tend to offer greater utility, with specific features ...

Betashares launches first private credit fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025
... asset manager Cliffwater. Betashares said the underlying strategy has delivered attractive risk-adjusted returns with a high level of capital stability across a variety of market conditions. For eligible Australian investors and financial advisers, the ...

Inflation hits highest level in over a year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicator rose 2.8% in the 12 months to July 2025, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). "The 2.8% annual CPI inflation to July was up from 1.9% to June. This is the highest ...

QIC harvests rare earth elements to turbocharge net zero transition

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
... Mines executive director Ben Emery said the project is estimated to have a short construction time owing to the surface level deposit. "This means Sandy Mitchell can be quickly developed and start production with simple mining and low environmental impacts," ...