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Listed companies drive economy's momentum: ABDO

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
Australian companies continue to defy odds and beat analysts' expectations to help keep the economy on its resilience streak. Perennial Partners lead portfolio manager Stephen Bruce, who presented at the Advisers Big Day Out (ABDO) Capital Cities in ...

Economists react to latest RBA rate decision

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
In its March meeting, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept its cash rate unchanged at 4.35%, as predicted by nearly all economists. HSBC chief economist Paul Bloxham stated that the decision was in line with expectations and that there are risks ...

Advisers flock to managed accounts, but are very selective

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2024
A new report from State Street and Investment Trends found a record 25% of all new client inflows are placed into managed accounts. The proportion of advisers using them has more than tripled from 18% a decade ago to an equal record high of 56% now. ...

Global dividends reached record high in 2023

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024
The latest Global Dividend Index by Janus Henderson Investors revealed global dividends experienced an uptick of 5% on an underlying basis, reaching a record of US$1.66 trillion in 2023. The report revealed the year closed on a particularly positive ...

Female fund managers boast 1.2% alpha

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2024
Female fund managers generate 1.2% alpha on average compared to the broader population, a new analysis from Morningstar shows. The assessment of 62 portfolio management teams led by women were able to achieve 0.89% in alpha annualised over five years ...

Equip Super set to hire top chief experience officer

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2024
Equip Super is the latest super fund to reshuffle its leadership team as it redoubles its efforts to improve the superannuation experience for members. The revamp will see the departure of two key executives and the arrival of new chief experience officer ...

EG to target intermediaries

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024
The real estate giant plans to expand into the intermediaries sector with the recent hire of Mark Weingarth as its director of business management. Weingarth, who officially joined EG in October last year, brings over 17 years of experience in financial ...

Morningstar equities research lead departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
The long-serving head of equities research at Morningstar has reflected on six decades in financial services in a final analyst note. Peter Warnes has been with Morningstar since 2006, however his career began long before - nabbing a role with the Bank ...

Iress loses key wealth executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
Amara Haqqani has quit the financial software and data firm after just six months as it struggles to lift profits. The departure of Haqqani, chief product and operating officer for Iress' wealth business, comes as the firm reported a bottom-line ...

Large-cap equity funds continue underperformance: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
Large-cap active equity fund managers turned in their second-worst year of underperformance as 77% failed to beat their benchmark, the latest SPIVA study shows. Aussie large-cap managers suffered their worst-performing period in 2023 - not since 2018 ...