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Insto injects further $530m in Qualitas

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023
... of the $1 billion mandate. Another unnamed insto committed $750 million into the Qualitas Construction Debt Fund II in August. In the same month, Qualitas secured a second commitment of $700 million from a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority ...

Global small caps outperform Aussie counterparts: SSGA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023
... Index boasts a pool of 4313 constituents, vastly outnumbering the 198 options in the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index as of August 31. This disparity presents more opportunities for active portfolio managers. "A fundamental principle in active management ...

Inflation rises to 5.2%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) experienced a slight increase in the month of August, jumping to 5.2% from 4.9% in July. Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that the major contributors to the price increase included housing ...

Skynet adviser stole $10.2m: Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023
... began investigating Nugara on 21 October 2019. Immigration found that he and his family had already left Australia on 15 August 2019, residing in several countries such as Indonesia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, and Singapore. He ...

Former adviser lands in jail

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2023
... clients set up or maintain self-managed super funds. Sebo used all the money to feed his gambling habit between July and August 2019 while he was sole director and shareholder of Platinum Perpetual Global Private Wealth, court documents read. One client ...

US regulator fines DWS US$25m for greenwashing, AML offences

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2023
... itself as a leader in ESG adhering to specific policies to integrate such considerations into its investments. However, from August 2018 until late 2021, DWS failed to adequately implement certain provisions of its global ESG integration policy as it ...

Qantas Super confirms merger plans

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2023
... the fund said. There's been several corporate super funds to announce or complete mergers of late. Most recently, in August, Citibank confirmed it would terminate its staff superannuation fund this month, citing higher operating costs and increased ...

Bank of England holds rates at 5.25%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2023
... inflation is projected to stay high, with potential for month-to-month variability. Twelve-month CPI inflation fell 6.7% in August, falling short of prior Committee forecasts by 0.4%. Core goods inflation weakened, declining from 6.4% in June to 5.2% ...

Don't believe inflation hype, says Pendal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2023
... of a second wave of inflation and fresh interest rate increases on the back of recent US inflation data is unfounded. In August, the US annual inflation rate moved to 3.7%, above market forecasts of 3.6%. "Thirteen consecutive months of disinflation ...

Betashares expands fixed income range

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2023
... investors to gain exposure to more parts of the market that have traditionally been harder to access." Between January and August this year, cash and fixed income ETFs have received nearly $4.4 billion in net inflows from investors, making it the highest ...