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GCQ enters ETF market, expands sales team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
Doug Tynan's GCQ Funds Management joins a growing number of active managers to enter the exchange-traded fund sector. The Sydney-based firm's flagship fund will trade on the ASX as an active ETF providing investors with access to GCQ's concentrated ...

Global active equity managers suffer their worst year in decades

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
Global active equity managers faced their toughest year in over two decades in 2024, according to Frontier Advisors. Frontier Advisors said heightened market concentration and US equity dominance created formidable headwinds, with most managers struggling ...

AI's big moment? Not this year, says Fidelity

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... dealmaking under the man who prides himself on his 'art of the deal,' have substantial implications for how businesses, and their stock prices, are viewed," the survey said. "There are a range of sectors in particular where our analysts predict a surge ...

Solutions to avoid concentration risk: Scientific Beta

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... caps. Meanwhile, the second approach is to invest in a 'market-focused multi-factor portfolio', which aims to maintain the stock weights aligning with the market cap benchmark in "similar sector and market beta characteristics". The Australian market ...

AI is not a bubble: ECP Asset Management

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... aside conversations about a bubble because it all comes down to valuations," Warton said. "And the question on valuations is stock-specific, it's not a market wide answer. What I think is very clear is that generative AI is going to be defining technological ...

MLC wary of but not opposed to bitcoin

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
MLC chief investment officer Dan Farmer said MLC is open to the possibility of investing in bitcoin in the future, but now is not the right time. "Like many institutional investors, we remain in the 'not now', rather than 'not ever' to bitcoin camp," ...

Superannuation powerbrokers bound for US investment summit

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
Superannuation, investment management, and banking leaders will descend on Washington DC and New York next week to showcase a super system poised to channel hundreds of billions into the US over the next decade. In a statement, representatives of super ...

Super moves: Aware Super, CareSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
... management of assets across a range of asset classes including electricity distribution, renewable energy, fibre, rolling stock leasing, public-private partnerships, and aged care investments. A former investment director at AMP Capital, Jiang is also ...

Schroders launches new active ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
Schroders Australia expanded its suite of active ETFs today, listing a global equities offering on the ASX and a credit product on Cboe. Schroders now has four active ETFs in market and plans to add further throughout the year. The products launched ...

Centaur goes self-licensed, appoints former dealer group head

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
Financial planning firm Centaur Financial Services has moved to its own AFSL and made a key hire in the process. Since 2015, Centaur has operated under a co-op licence with RFS Advice, Evalesco, and Guide Financial to reduce costs. However, Centaur ...