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Liberal MPs slammed for 'dangerous' super policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
Superannuation industry groups are pushing back against a campaign led by NSW Liberal Senator Maria Kovacic seeking to allow single and divorced woman to access their superannuation early to purchase a property. Association of Superannuation Funds of ...

Nobel laureates link economic prosperity to colonialism

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2024
... long-term benefits, the research found. However, many of these nations are trapped because the extractive institutions provide short-term gains to those in power and, so long as the political system guarantees they remain in control, promises about future ...

High-profile Tribeca manager sets up shop

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2024
Tribeca Investment Partners portfolio manager Jun Bei Liu is taking her top-performing $1.5 billion long-short equity fund to set up a new shop. Liu is effectively taking the Tribeca Alpha Plus Fund in a management buyout with the "blessings" of Tribeca ...

Best and worst performing ETFs revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2024
... exposure to the S&P 500 by combining investor funds with borrowed capital. At the other end of the spectrum, Global X Ultra Short Nasdaq 100 Hedge Fund (SNAS) was the worst performer with a -40.5% return over 12 months. A $1000 investment one year ago ...

BNP Paribas shutters EARTH Trust

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2024
... to the fund not attracting the desired number of investors or investment scale, and no further growth is expected in the short to medium term. As at July 31, the trust had just $132,755 in assets while the underlying fund had $21 million. "Under these ...

IFM Investors loses top executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2024
... operating officer Lounarda David has quit the pension-owned infrastructure and private equity specialist. David plans to take a short break before deciding what to do next - probably until after the Christmas holiday period. She has more than a few options ...

ETF winners and losers in September

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2024
... largest market cap passive ETF seeing an "uncharacteristic outflow." Fixed income saw mixed results, as investors sold out of short duration floating rate not strategies to longer maturity Australian government bond strategies or the broader benchmark. ...

AustralianSuper updates deceased members' investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024
... securities on the account. "While the Cash investment option is designed to have stable returns and has a 'very low' short-term risk level, investment returns may be lower than the returns of the previous investment option(s) you held before ...

'Challenging period' for active managers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024
... categories, including the lowest underperformance rate reported in this scorecard-just 13% of US-domiciled Investment Grade Short and Intermediate Bond funds underperformed the iBoxx $ Overall 1-5 Year Index."

Global Capital Property to be wound up

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
The Federal Court ordered the wind up of Global Capital Property Fund (GCPF) shortly after director Joel Hewish was banned from working in the industry for 10 years. The hearing on October 3 appointed FTI Consulting as liquidators to GCPF after ASIC ...