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MetLife snaps up three investment teams from Mesirow

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... PineBridge Investments. MetLife Investment Management will take on Mesirow's high yield and bank loan strategic fixed income, and small-cap equity teams - which manage about $6 billion of assets - as well as certain related investment products. The acquired ...

Investors should stay the course in 2025: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... US] including commodities like electric vehicles spreading rapidly across emerging markets. "[However] within US equities, small caps is probably the one area that is [offering] a little better value."

Regal, Magellan book performance fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2025
... Regal Tactical Opportunities, and Attunga Power & Enviro Fund. The PM Capital Enhanced Yield strategies and Regal Australian Small Companies Fund were also standout performers. Regal grew its funds under management (FUM) to $18 billion at the end of ...

New tool will streamline regulation: Chalmers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
The government has released a new tool with the aim to streamline and coordinate regulation in the financial sector. Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the tool will help build a more competitive, dynamic and productive economy. "We want to make it simpler ...

The productivity bubble has burst: Productivity Commission

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... development given that, over the medium to long term, "higher productivity growth also underpins fiscal sustainability." "Even small changes that make the economy more dynamic and efficient can deliver big economic dividends and add up to major improvements ...

Chalmers defends budget deficits in MYEFO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has called his government's mid-year economic fiscal outlook (MYEFO) a "responsible set of books" despite major budget deficits likely to continue for a decade. The MYEFO forecasted a budget deficit of $26.9 billion for 2024-25 ...

AMP defies super fund herd with Bitcoin bet

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2024
... exposure to traditional payment companies, he said. AMP chief investment officer Anna Shelley said the decision to allocate a "small and risk-controlled position" in digital assets through AMP's Dynamic Asset Allocation (DAA) program - which is designed ...

Trustee valuation processes 'concerning': APRA review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2024
... liquidity triggers described in such broad or overly qualitative terms that they may be difficult to use in practice." For a small number of RSEs, APRA observed differences between their documented quantitative triggers and the triggers actually used ...

Betashares terminates nine funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
... - only the second time in its history that such a process has been undertaken - and as part of this, decided to close a small number of funds. "... we decided to close a small number of funds where we concluded that investor take up was going to remain ...

Australia home to 43 billionaires: UBS

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
... Consequently, tech billionaires currently have the highest average wealth at US$70.6 billion. However, there are a relatively small number of them."