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State Super: In decline but doing fine

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
... well diverse." The fund has pared back its active manager program "quite significantly," Livanas said, with half its equities no longer actively managed "because we can't." "If you've got an active manager over a five-to-seven-year period, if you've ...

Frontier promotes staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... three years as an analyst with Rask Australia, an investment research and education company. Goh will primarily focus on equities research and consulting advice. At the same time, long-serving senior consultant Andrew Longmore will take on the role of ...

BlackRock rebalance sparks record-high ETF trades on ASX

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... turnover in a day earlier this month, hitting a whopping $2 billion on March 6, largely thanks to BlackRock reducing its equities exposure and shoring up defensive assets within its model portfolios. The fund manager's annual strategic asset allocation ...

CFS awards fixed income mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... management firm Man Group. CFS will be investing in global fixed income through Man Numeric, the Boston-based systematic equities and credit investment manager of Man Group, with an initial allocation made in Q4 2024 of more than $1 billion in a strategy ...

Rest kickstarts in-house global equities trading

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
After about 18 months in the works, Rest's internal global equities team is now running its first mandate. The team has been handed $300 million to invest on behalf of the fund's members, with plans to progressively increase the mandate over ...

TWC Invest makes risk, technology hires

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
... began his career in fixed income and cash markets at the State Electricity Commission of Victoria and was a director of equities at Equitilink (now Aberdeen Asset Management). In 2002, Thompson joined Cooper Investors as a founding director, leading ...

Underperforming managers in China could see pay halved

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
... salaries despite their funds making hefty losses during periods of market declines." According to the FTSE Russell, Chinese equities outperformed the APAC region, the US, and FTSE All-World Index in February. The rally came off the back of monetary and ...

GQG loses top sales exec

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... Vontobel Asset Management chief investment officer and co-chief executive Rajiv Jain in 2016 as an independent boutique equities manager. Abernethy left his role as CFS's head of retail investment sales back in 2019 to lead GQG's Australia and ...

Asian family office sets up in Melbourne

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... He sees second and third-generation high-net-worth clients who want to do more with their wealth than invest in bonds, equities, and property. The focus on capital markets will enable the new firm to offer a wider range of investment options such as ...

Wilson AM to launch first monthly LIC strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... The WAM Income Maximiser (ASX:WMX) aims to provide monthly franked dividends and capital growth by investing in 40-70 equities and corporate debt instruments - the first Australian LIC to do so, Wilson Asset Management (WAM) said. The portfolio will ...