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SSGA expands risk-based ETF model portfolios

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2024
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has announced the expansion of its State Street risk-based ETF model portfolios to include a new High Growth investment option. The High Growth model will be available to financial advisers on the Praemium, HUB24 ...

Global X set to launch an Australian Bank Credit ETF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
... towards widely diversified solutions and ETFs focusing on floating rate notes, such as subordinated debt," Metcalf said. "This trend has shown the widespread impact rising interest rates have had on local investor sentiment, sparking an increased desire ...

ETFs trump active managed funds in core portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
Financial advisers are helping drive the shift to passive funds as they choose exchange-traded funds (ETFs) over active, unlisted managed funds as a core building block in clients' portfolios. According to Investment Trends head of research Irene Guiamatsia ...

Australian ETF industry blazes past $200bn

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
... and their financial advisers return to international and Australian equities as market sentiment improves. We expect this trend to continue to drive flows into these two asset classes, alongside fixed income," Betashares chief executive Alex Vynokur ...

Political risk pushes institutional investors to cash: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
State Street Global Markets has released the results of the State Street Institutional Investor Indicators for June, showing risk appetite fell 0.09 in June, revealing a modest risk off bias across the month. State Street Global Markets head of macro ...

The investment managers winning the biggest mandates

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
... increased their share considerably from 36% as of December 2023 to 44% in March 2024. Rainmaker said this quarter resets the trend and shows a tilt towards Australian equities mandates that accounted for a total of 19% in almost eight years, and a slight ...

Advisers encouraged to embrace AI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
The Investment Trends Adviser Technology Needs Report found financial advisers are showing a strong demand for better technology integration as they look to consolidate their tech stacks. Interestingly, the survey found the adoption of artificial intelligence ...

World's largest pension fund returns 22.67%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
Japan's $2.27 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) reported a 22.67% return for the fiscal year ending 2023. This performance was driven primarily by domestic equities, which yielded 41.41% return, and foreign equities, which returned ...

ASX delistings outpacing new market entries

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
The latest EQT ASX Group Monthly Activity Report for June 2024 highlighted a significant trend of ASX delistings outpacing new market entries last financial year. The report suggested investors were increasingly pivoting towards private markets in search ...

MLC MySuper option returns 9.8%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
The MLC MySuper growth portfolio has generated a 9.8% investment return for the financial year. The three and five-year returns for that option were 5.4% and 6.7% per annum, respectively. MLC Asset Management head of diversified portfolios Steve Gamerov ...