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Insignia takeover heats up, Bain Capital ups bid

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
Bain Capital has re-entered the arena to vie for Insignia Financial, matching CC Capital Partners' $4.30 per share offer. Insignia rejected Bain Capital's bid of $4 per share on December 18, claiming it "does not adequately represent fair value" ...

CFS delivers 16.6% returns for growth members

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
... performance from Australian shares. "We believe that inflation data will continue to be volatile in 2025 so diversification and active risk management will be critical components of portfolio construction in the year ahead." CFS Superannuation chief ...

Adviser number growth shoots?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... majority of these flows - show no significant growth year on year. He concluded this marks a challenging period for both active managers and insurers.

Managed funds industry winners and losers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... significantly higher outflows compared to ETPs (20:1). Interestingly, market-cap index funds are growing at a faster rate than both active management and smart beta products, which is indicative of cost as "investors care a lot about the total cost of ...

Bitcoin returns 147%, outshines bull market

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
Bitcoin reaped nearly four times more in returns compared to US equities during 2024, achieving 147% and trumping all the major asset classes. According to a VanEck and Bloomberg analysis, US equities delivered 38.2% for the year while global equities ...

Insignia denies yet another takeover bid

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
Insignia Financial has denied that it has received a takeover offer from global investment giant Brookfield Asset Management, in response to media speculation. Making an announcement on the ASX, Insignia noted the speculation that Brookfield was actively ...

GQG ends year with $32.7bn net inflows

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... institutional client made a "significant partial redemption" in the first half of last year, because they wanted to reduce the active risk in their global sleeves. Abernethy noted that this is a "good reason for us to have a partial redemption." GQG ...

Regal, Magellan book performance fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2025
Active fund managers Regal Partners and Magellan Financial Group earned $25 million and $6 million in performance fees respectively in the last six months of 2024. Several strategies were behind Regal's outperformance, namely the ASX-listed Regal ...

Bull market buoys super funds' 2024 returns

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2025
... investments in the US and global equities aided the positive outcomes. "The quality of returns reflects strategic allocation and active performance by our equity and credit managers to asset classes and our overweight to stocks which we expected to perform ...

Morgans Financial crowned largest licensee

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2025
... Financial Planning (AMP FP) to become the licensee with the largest number of financial advisers. Morgans recorded 431 active advisers at the end of 2024, while AMP FP had 426. On December 20, both AFSLs had 430 registered advisers, Rainmaker Information ...