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Betashares launches equity high yield ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2025
... strategies by seeking to screen out potential dividend traps. It aims to track the return of the S&P/ASX 200 High Yield Select Index before taking into account fees and expenses. Meanwhile, Betashares revised the investment strategy and decreased the ...

Betashares adds global bond ETF to lineup

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... Aggregate Bond Currency Hedged ETF (ASX: WBND) is the first ETF in Australia that aims to track the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Index (AUD Hedged), which is used by APRA in the performance test for superannuation funds, Betashares said. The ETF, covering ...

HESTA calls for reforms to help women in retirement

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
Women beginning their careers in 2025 with a 12% super guarantee (SG) rate in place could have as much as $400,000 more in retirement, new HESTA modelling suggests. The modelling showed women representative of the average HESTA member were projected ...

Bennelong boutique shuts up shop

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
... Touchstone Asset Management has closed its doors. As first reported by Financial Standard, the boutique wound up the Touchstone Index Unaware Fund in May. This was largely due to the low funds under management of about $14 million. At the time, Touchstone ...

RBA cut all but certain: Experts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.7% in the June 2025 quarter and 2.1% annually, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). "The CPI rose 0.7% in the June quarter, lower than the 0.9% rise in the March 2025 quarter," ...

T. Rowe Price brings research equity strategy down under

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
... alternative to passive allocations and is structured to be similar to those of the MSCI All Country World ex Australia Net Index, with stock selection as the primary source of excess returns. The strategy also has less exposure to "extreme style" or ...

Former CBA chief economist joins UniSuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... Australian economy on a regular and consistent basis. He developed the CommBank's Household Spending Insights (HSI) Index and oversaw the growth of the bank's sustainable economics research to support customers with insights about the transition ...

Future Generation delivers 10.8%, increases dividend

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
... potential for long-term outperformance. "Over the past 12 months to 30 June 2025 the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Accumulation Index outperformed the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Accumulation Index by 0.9%, largely due to the concentrated performance of a few ...

CC Capital drags feet on Insignia takeover bid

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2025
CC Capital Partners continues to drag its feet on making an official takeover offer for Insignia Financial, surpassing the two-week timeframe it promised it would make a binding bid within. The announcement released on the ASX this morning states that ...

Bennelong launches Allspring Global Income Fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2025
... yield and emerging market debt markets. It offers daily liquidity and aims to outperform the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Index by generating returns consisting of monthly income and capital appreciation. Commenting, Bennelong chief executive John Burke ...