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Small industry super funds beat giants on trust, service, value

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... industry funds lies in reassuring members who are curious about other options by addressing any doubts around their performance. The research also found that small super funds, across both industry and retail segments, had higher engagement, with their ...

L1 Capital, Platinum merger inches closer to reality

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... shareholders will own 26%. This split was on the basis that the combined entity would be able to participate in the performance fees related to the first 5% of absolute returns generated by the L1 Long Short funds with anything over that going to L1's ...

Investor optimism premature, fund flows in firing line

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... the difficulty to consistently outperform. Competition remains intense, and firms will need to improve investment performance, realign incentive structures, pursue strategic partnerships, or increase investment in distribution to defend market share," ...

QIC offloads Victorian shopping centre for $440m

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... QIC's prolonged engagement; the asset owner has had the centre on its books for more than three decades. "Driving performance also means knowing when market conditions are conducive to realising value, and this excellent sale demonstrates QIC's focus ...

Boutiques wield independence, specialisation over larger managers: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... competitive advantage. The paper builds on 2015 research from Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), which calculated a boutique performance premium. That study found the outperformance of US boutiques over other asset managers during a 20-year period was ...

Ascalon hires from SCM, Zenith and GQG

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... leadership evolution also allows me to focus even more deeply on the investment strategy and research that underpins our performance. I'm personally excited to support this next chapter as we build a new team and deliver even greater impact." Hawke ...

ASIC reads the riot act to the super industry: Longo

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... in that review bothered to monitor or report on end-to-end death benefit claims handling times, nor did they have performance objectives for these times. Many also neglected to track how long claims sat in limbo, leaving some cases to stagnate for months ...

Aussies feeling FOMO on private markets: Survey

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... market volatility to continue, coupled with the opacity of private markets, most Australians are selecting safety over performance (80%). Natixis also revealed that 68% said "they don't want to be locked into only what overall markets can deliver ...

Super funds' private market assets grow to $400bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... Australian listed equity, international listed equity, and private equity (internal rate of return). It found the performance of each returned 8.3% p.a., 12.1% p.a., and 14.7% p.a. respectively in the five years to 30 September 2024. "Over the long-term ...

Financial Standard names Investment Manager of the Year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... Investment Leadership Awards highlight investment managers and investment products that have demonstrated exceptional performance in terms of returns and risk controls. According to Rainmaker Information, the publisher of Financial Standard, investment ...