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BlackRock rethinks fundamental equities, PMs depart

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2023
... severely underperformed since its inception. As at 31 December 2022, the fund's total YTD return was -26.57% against the benchmark - the S&P/ASX300 Industrials Accumulation Ex Top 5 Stocks by Market Cap Gross Index's - return of -13.99%. Since December ...

Australian equities to outperform in 2023: VanEck

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2023
Australian equities are set to battle the bearish storm ahead and outperform global equities this year, according to the fund manager. Recent analysis by VanEck shows Australian equities, as represented by the S&P/ASX 200, was one of the best-performing ...

Aware Super, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America back Xpansiv

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2023
Commodities platform Xpansiv has secured new strategic investors in Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, while Aware Super has deepened its investment. Xpansiv also announced the closing of a $125 million capital raise designed to fuel continued growth ...

GQG reports strong inflows

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2023
... Abernethy said the fund's stable net inflows and slight drop in FUM is a phenomenal result, especially as the fund's benchmark indices, the MSCI ACWI and MSCI EM, have fallen around 20%. While GQG's share price has fallen in recent times ...

SS&C launches super offering, secures Mine Super mandate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2022
... heatmap data showed that Mine Super's MySuper product was poor performing in the context of a rolling eight-year benchmark. Further, regarding the sustainability of member outcomes, Mine Super's RSE licensee AUSCOAL Superannuation had a member ...

Super heatmap findings garner mixed responses

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2022
... excuse for fund members to suffer low relative performance. The regulator is expecting funds to deliver positive above-benchmark results in bad times as well as good." Meanwhile, Frontier Advisers principal consultant David Carruthers pointed out that ...

Mine Super and TWUSUPER explore merger

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2022
Mine Super and TWUSUPER have signed a preliminary non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to merge. If undertaken, a merged entity would create a combined fund managing nearly $20 billion for over 150,000 members. Mine Super chair Christina Langby ...

MySuper heatmap reveals sub-par products

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2022
The annual MySuper heatmap shows there are six products that had significantly poor performance in relation to the benchmark. EISS Super's MySuper option, Colonial First State FirstChoice Employer Super, BT Super MySuper, Westpac Group Plan MySuper ...

Pinnacle's performance fee revenue could plummet

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2022
... fees as they entered the period behind the relevant high-water marks. In other cases, style-related performance below benchmark resulted in performance fees not being earned. However, Pinnacle said that shareholders should note that performance can vary ...

RBA set to lift the cash rate again

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2022
... the RBA are expected to raise the official cash rate by 25-basis points at their last meeting of 2022, bringing the benchmark interest rate to 3.1% - the highest levels in over a decade. Although the nation's inflation rate is currently more than three ...