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Prime Value expands microcap fund

ELIZA BAVIN | MONDAY, 7 JUL 2025

... stocks provide ongoing opportunity to exploit an inefficient part of the market. "There is a lot of scope for active managers to generate alpha via smaller companies," Ivers said. "The Fund is also positioned to capitalise on market swings so investors ...

MLC AM delivers real returns for members in FY25

KARREN VERGARA | MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025

... did very well over the year. They tended to have fuller investments in some of the sectors and businesses that active managers found challenging." This included fuller weights to the Magnificent Seven and Australian banks. Farmer added that active managers ...

Old challenges push asset managers to inflection point: Citi

KARREN VERGARA | WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025

... the future, "winning models" will shift from aggressive product push to meeting clients' unique needs. "As active managers continue to face headwinds from the rise of passive funds, the old fund charges based on fees as a fixed proportion of assets ...

Uncertainty propels investors towards active managers

MATTHEW WAI | WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025

Australian investors are looking to engage with active managers to navigate the heightened geopolitical volatility, according to a new survey. The Schroders Global Investor Insights Survey 2025, which covers nearly 1000 institutional investors and wealth ...

Global X scales higher on the ETF issuer podium

ANDREW MCKEAN | MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025

... ETFs to build low-cost portfolios at the expense of the unlisted managed fund industry. "It's a fact that most active managers underperform their benchmarks over the long term, according to data from S&P. Australians are wising up to this underperformance ...

Investor optimism premature, fund flows in firing line

KARREN VERGARA | WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025

... due to firm-specific issues such as weak flows or waning corporate interest from suitors, he added. Overall, the active managers in the coverage "lack the consistent outperformance needed to recapture market share lost to ETFs and industry funds." "Most ...

Wealth management has never looked better: Knox

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025

... "On the global scene, it's really tough to be a fund manager; you're getting scalability problems and active managers are dying a death domestically because of all the in-housing of assets under management by industry super funds. So, asset management ...

Platinum merger no cure for active managers' challenges

ANDREW MCKEAN | MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025

... Management and L1 Capital may deliver scale, but it won't resolve the deeper structural issues dogging traditional active managers, including fee pressure and market share loss to passive investment vehicles like ETFs, according to Morningstar. Last ...

Which fund managers are making the most from investor fees?

ANDREW MCKEAN | TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025

... Financial Standard that with so much money still sloshing around in managed funds, Australians may be paying more to active managers than they need to for a similar exposure via an index ETF. "Investing is one of the few things in life where the more ...

GCQ enters ETF market, expands sales team

ELIZABETH FRY | THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025

Doug Tynan's GCQ Funds Management joins a growing number of active managers to enter the exchange-traded fund sector. The Sydney-based firm's flagship fund will trade on the ASX as an active ETF providing investors with access to GCQ's concentrated ...

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Mercer Super chief executive steps down

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | 12:01PM

Mercer Super chief executive Claire Ross is departing after almost 17 years in senior leadership roles at the retail super fund.

AusFood Super looks to revitalise member engagement

MATTHEW WAI | 11:30AM

The $3.5 billion super fund has partnered with InvestStream to launch RetireSmart+, becoming the first super fund to bring an AI-powered engagement experience to some 66,000 members.

L1 Group posts 'marked recovery' in June quarter

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | 12:13PM

L1 Group has reported a marked recovery in investment performance in the June quarter.

European PE firm mandates Apostle with Australian distribution

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | 11:50AM

Apostle Fund Management has been appointed by European investment firm Triton Partners for the distribution of its credit strategies in Australia and New Zealand.

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