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Insignia Financial receives bid from Brookfield

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2025
... war, with both CC Capital Partners and Bain Capital vying for ownership. Brookfield has made an offer to acquire all the shares in Insignia Financial by way of a scheme of arrangement for $4.60 cash per share or the potential alternative to acquire scrip ...

Nest to acquire 10% stake in IFM Investors

ELIZA BAVIN, MATT TOLEDO  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2025
... their stake in IFM, but the relative percentages in terms of ownership would change. "Ultimately, Nest have purchased new shares," the spokesperson said. As part of the strategic partnership, Nest plans to invest in IFM's infrastructure, debt and private ...

Australian Wealth Advisors Group invests big in Sequoia

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2025
... 2024 annual report, Unrandom had the largest stake among the top 20 list of security holders of 7.8% across 10 million shares, followed by chief executive Garry Crole's 7.3% allocated to 9.2 million shares. Brent Jones, a director of Unrandom, was previously ...

Syfe bids for SelfWealth, ups BFG's offer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025
... SelfWealth, offering 12% more at 28 cents per share. Syfe's parent company Svava has already acquired 43.4 million SelfWealth shares, representing 18.8% of shares on issue. Wealth management platform Syfe is based in Singapore and operates in Australia ...

Best Australian share funds of 2024: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... Hyperion Australian Growth Fund claimed the top spot, delivering a 30.7% return in 2024; it also topped the Australian shares product rankings in 2023 with a 25.1% return. "Hyperion focuses on identifying proven high-quality businesses with above average ...

Bumpy roads ahead for traditional active managers

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
... to Morningstar's Industry Pulse report on listed asset managers for the December quarter, active managers are losing shares in traditional equity and fixed income strategies. Although the net flows have improved among active managers for the fifth ...

AustralianSuper welcomes AI tech competition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
... artificial intelligence (AI) scene, wiping $1 trillion off chip maker Nvidia. AustralianSuper holds around $2 billion of Nvidia shares in its balanced option, but chief executive Paul Schroder said competition in the space is "positive". "Somebody has ...

Global dividend strength to continue: Plato

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
... very positive year for many Australians who have global equities allocations in their income portfolios," Plato Global Shares Income Fund senior portfolio manager Daniel Pennell said. "Looking forward, what's very encouraging is our data shows the number ...

Aussie shares cost 8% more on rebalance days: Dimensional

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
... EURO STOXX 50, and Nikkei 225 between 2014 to 2023. Investors in the local index tend to pay 8% more on average to buy shares on the rebalance date compared to the month prior. This then drops to 2.2% on average in the month following the rebalance date ...

Natixis, Generali merger creates $3.2tn fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
... creating the largest asset manager in Europe and a major global player, alongside Generali, a financial institution that shares our values."