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Lower interest rates conducive for bigger risk appetite, small caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
As interest rates continue to fall, small caps are poised to reap from the current macroeconomic backdrop and investors increasing their appetite for more risk, a fund manager says. Janus Henderson portfolio manager Nick Sheridan predicts the tide is ...

AIOFP, FAAA encouraged by first meeting with Mulino

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
Following their inaugural meeting with new financial services minister Daniel Mulino, the Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals (AIOFP) and Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) feel enthused about the impact he will have ...

Retirement confidence highest since 2020: SSGA

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... and 22% in May 2020. The survey identified the top three factors behind the increased confidence: 43% cited little to no short-term debt, another 43% cited wise investment of their super or retirement plan, while 40% noted the ability to save as the ...

ASIC blasts managed funds' poor compliance plans

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
Too many responsible entities (REs) of managed funds are falling short of their obligations to adequately address design and distribution obligations (DDO), the reportable situations regime and internal dispute resolution processes and reporting (IDR) ...

Aware Super beefs up sustainability team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... portfolio outcomes. Twelve months ago, she served as a non-executive director and will continue on in that capacity. Before a short stint at MLC Life, she spent the previous three years at U Ethical. While at the investment house, she led the integration ...

Quality over quantity: CareSuper on mergers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... creating what is now a $56 billion fund with more than 580,000 members, and taking on the heritage CareSuper brand. A few short weeks later, the merged entity announced it was in discussion with another industry fund to enter the fold - the Meat Industry ...

BlackRock to list its first active ETF in Australia

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... momentum, size, growth, and minimum volatility, with a "bottom-up, data driven stock selection approach." This should reduce short-term cyclical volatility and deliver outperformance relative to the broader market over time, BlackRock explained. BlackRock ...

COVID 'masked' issues at core of productivity problem: PC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a "productivity bubble", in which measured labour productivity rose to a record high between January 2020 and March 2022 before returning to pre-pandemic levels in June 2023, the Productivity Commission (PC) has revealed. ...

Commodities 'crucial' for portfolio resilience: QIC

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... other sectors and are marked-to-market daily. Further, commodity futures contain low funding requirements, the ability to short markets, and are highly liquid in facilitating large institutional allocations. It also eliminates the logistical complexities ...

AMP super class action finally hits court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... harmful impact on millions of AMP superannuation account balances," she said. "Millions of Australians were unknowingly short-changed over years. Through this class action, AMP superannuation account holders are seeking accountability and to be restored ...