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Tasmania leads economic recovery

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
Tasmania continues to be the best-performing economy thanks to a booming housing market, a new report shows. For the eighth quarter in a row, the Apple Isle has outgunned the other states and territories based on its relative unemployment, retail spending ...

Insto investors tempted by crypto

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
A new study shows close to 80% of institutional investors and wealth managers are now looking favourably upon cryptocurrencies, citing strong capital growth and diversification benefits. Commissioned by digital assets hedge fund manager Nickel Digital ...

200% more ESG investments from sovereign funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 JAN 2022
New data suggests sovereign wealth funds globally increased their commitments to ESG investments by 215.27% between 2020 and 2021. The amount sovereign wealth funds have invested in ESG strategies surged from US$7.2 billion to $22.7 billion. Over the ...

DIY investors embrace Meta Platforms

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 14 JAN 2022
With big new investments in data centers, servers, and network infrastructures, Meta Platforms' popularity with global DIY investors soared in the fourth quarter of 2021. Data from global investment platform eToro shows that Meta rocketed from 13th ...

Magellan loses significant mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 DEC 2021
Magellan Financial Group has lost a key mandate from UK wealth manager St James' Place. After requesting a trading halt Friday afternoon, this morning Magellan confirmed to the ASX that it had lost the mandate from St James' Place. The company's share ...

MySuper heatmap offers few surprises

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
The annual MySuper heatmap shows 45% of products delivered returns below benchmark this year but there are few surprises, with most being the same products that failed the performance test. The regulator has also shared which funds came close to failing ...

Magellan chief executive resigns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2021
The chief executive of Magellan, Brett Cairns, has resigned for personal reasons. The fund manager's chief financial officer Kristen Morton is stepping in as interim chief executive. Morton has been chief financial officer at Magellan for more than ...

CFS targets adviser market

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021
With a $430 million funding boost, Colonial First State hopes to capture a bigger slice of the financial adviser market. Upon announcing that Commonwealth Bank relinquished its 55% stake as of yesterday, CFS unveiled its grand plan to transform operationally ...

GQG Partners launches income strategy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2021
GQG Partners launched a new strategy, securing a $125 million mandate from a large Australian institution. The GQG Global Quality Dividend Income strategy seeks to invest in dividend-paying companies with attractively priced future growth prospects ...

Industry fund cuts premiums

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2021
A $2 billion industry fund has reduced its insurance premiums by more than 17%. REI Super informed members premium rates will decrease by 17.5% for income protection and 3.3% for death and total and permanent disability (TPD) insurance. "We continuously ...