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Bragg proposes super fund reforms to protect retail investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2024
... Australian equities as of June 202 2. Industry super funds had invested 18% of their members' assets in Australian stocks, while retail funds had allocated 28%, representing approximately $316 billion and $193 billion respectively.

Multi-asset funds see $1bn exodus

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2023
... September quarter. Inflows were down 81% on a year-on-year basis. Just under half of the quarter's inflows went to Australian stocks, a net $306 million. "The bond markets are in the driving seat for the time being - and bond yields are essential to ...

Hostplus grilled on common ownership, collusion

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2021
... awarded to IFM is a quantitative strategy, which is both an active and passive strategy to investing in the top 50 Australian stocks, deputy chief investment officer Greg Clark said. Chief executive David Elia said IFM was set up so super funds could ...

Perpetual equities fund cops ratings downgrade

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... downgraded to bronze at Morningstar. The Perpetual Wholesale Concentrated Growth Equity Fund invests in 20 to 45 Australian stocks, chosen with a value and balance sheet focus - similar to Perpetual's flagship Australian shares fund. However, this fund ...

Investors pile into companies on life support

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... anticipated to be sharper than that experienced in the aftermath of the GFC this situation is not unique to Australian stocks. "Nevertheless markets aren't ostensibly cheap in our view considering the largely unknown impact COVID-19 will have on ...

Top picks for dividends during COVID-19

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
UBS says the dividend dip in Australian stocks in the next year could be worse than the Global Financial Crisis, but six stocks are poised to pay good dividends. In 2008, dividends fell by $10.5 billion (or 28%) to $44.9 billion. But this time, dividends ...

Firetrail fund gets Morningstar rating

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2019
... underperforming the benchmark by 11.7% in the year to September end. The fund holds a concentrated portfolio of Australian stocks and is managed by former Macquarie high conviction team led by Patrick Hodgens who set up their own boutique under Pinnacle's ...

Zurich awards $100m passive mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2019
... for Zurich Group's Australian investment management arm. DWS will invest in a passively-managed portfolio of Australian stocks for Zurich Investment Management. Zurich's head of savings and investments Matthew Drennan said: "Zurich sees DWS as a valued ...

Future Fund delivers 9.3%, increases risk moderately

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
... valuable thing for the Future Fund and other industry funds. It is one of the reasons why you would invest in Australian stocks," Neal said. "As I understand it, if any change occurs, it will not apply to the Future Funds or the industry funds." He said ...

Saxo Capital Markets expands solutions

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
... a unique identifier assigned by the ASX to investors who use a broker. This means having the ability to hold Australian stocks through the HIN structure provided by the ASX's Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS) alongside other assets ...