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Aware Super beefs up sustainability team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... portfolio outcomes. Twelve months ago, she served as a non-executive director and will continue on in that capacity. Before a short stint at MLC Life, she spent the previous three years at U Ethical. While at the investment house, she led the integration ...

Quality over quantity: CareSuper on mergers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... creating what is now a $56 billion fund with more than 580,000 members, and taking on the heritage CareSuper brand. A few short weeks later, the merged entity announced it was in discussion with another industry fund to enter the fold - the Meat Industry ...

BlackRock to list its first active ETF in Australia

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... momentum, size, growth, and minimum volatility, with a "bottom-up, data driven stock selection approach." This should reduce short-term cyclical volatility and deliver outperformance relative to the broader market over time, BlackRock explained. BlackRock ...

COVID 'masked' issues at core of productivity problem: PC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a "productivity bubble", in which measured labour productivity rose to a record high between January 2020 and March 2022 before returning to pre-pandemic levels in June 2023, the Productivity Commission (PC) has revealed. ...

Commodities 'crucial' for portfolio resilience: QIC

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... other sectors and are marked-to-market daily. Further, commodity futures contain low funding requirements, the ability to short markets, and are highly liquid in facilitating large institutional allocations. It also eliminates the logistical complexities ...

AMP super class action finally hits court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... harmful impact on millions of AMP superannuation account balances," she said. "Millions of Australians were unknowingly short-changed over years. Through this class action, AMP superannuation account holders are seeking accountability and to be restored ...

Stake 'breaks barriers' with inaugural fixed income product

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
The investment platform has launched an actively managed fund, targeting a return of 2% above the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) cash rate. Launched today, Stake Accumulate is primarily invested in liquid, fixed income securities, but may also invest ...

Family offices to splash cash in APAC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
... invest more in their own backyard. Some 30% said they'd also invest more in Greater China in the next five years. In the short term, 22% of APAC family offices said they'd increase exposures to India and Taiwan over the next 12 months, while 39% will ...

ASIC accuses Kalkine of providing unlicensed advice

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
... have adequate supervision arrangements in place. "As a result of our investigation we remain concerned that Kalkine fell short in meeting its obligations, leading ASIC to take the significant step of imposing new licence conditions," Court said. "Kalkine ...

Most investment managers see outflows - but who captured the most?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... between unlisted unit trusts and ETFs," Rainmaker said. Seven asset class sectors had positive net flows over the period: short-duration bonds (credit, high yield and absolute return), Australian equities large cap, diversified bonds, international equities ...