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Showing 41 - 50 of 2029 results for "Australian equities"

Prime Super awards mandate to boutique manager

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2026
Prime Super has expanded its roster of domestic investment managers, awarding a new Australian equities mandate to Merlon Capital Partners. The $8 billion fund will utilise Merlon's Concentrated Australian Share strategy, which focuses on high conviction ...

Perpetual AUM falls by $8.3bn in March quarter

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2026
... Perpetual's Australian boutiques continued to perform well, both reporting net inflows for the quarter in Australian equities, cash, and fixed income strategies. Pendal Asset Management AUM was up 2.7% supported by net inflows of $2.2 billion. "All our ...

Nearly $12bn leaves Challenger in March quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2026
... outflows, followed by $1 billion leaving fixed income strategies from public markets and $986 million exiting Australian equities. The funds management unit ended up with $104.5 billion in the March quarter. The annuities business fared better with life ...

Spheria launches active ETF for small caps fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
... billion. Despite this, market movements pushed FUM down by $13.8 billion to $329.4 billion. Strong flows to Australian equities were not enough to dislodge international equities as the leading asset class for the month. Fixed income took third highest ...

Iran conflict exposes 'fault line' in Australian equities: VanEck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2026
The conflict in Iran has exposed a "fault line" in Australian equities, with some of the ASX's biggest names driving an outsized share of losses, according to VanEck Asia Pacific chief executive Arian Neiron. Neiron said the sell-off is a reminder that ...

Morningstar names most compelling funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2026
... Pendal Focus Australian Share Fund; Vinva Australian Equity Fund; Allan Gray Australian Equity Fund; Platypus Australian Equities Fund; and the Maple-Brown Abbott Australian Small Companies Fund. "The breadth of actively managed equity strategies available ...

Yarra hunts for superior returns outside ASX giants

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2026
... chip names can offer investors superior risk-adjusted returns, Yarra Capital Management chair and head of Australian equities Dion Hershan said. Speaking at the Financial Standard Advisers Big Day Out (ABDO) in Sydney today, Hershan said the old investment ...

ETF home bias more prominent amid global unrest: BlackRock

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2026
... European ETF being the third biggest gainer this year. "There's probably, 'hey I know, I like and I trust Australian equities and these are names that I am familiar with.' There is always that, of course, but I think in relation to what's ...

Fund manager red flags founders' massive pay packages

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
... Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) Conference in Sydney, Emma Fisher, the deputy head of Australian equities at Airlie Funds Management, shared poignant lessons she's learned as a professional investor from founder led and non-founder ...

Warakirri bolsters distribution squad

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2026
... bring a new global small companies solution to market, alongside our existing Emerging Markets Equities and Australian Equities capabilities managed by Northcape Capital, strongly positions us in the advisory market," Devlin added. The Warakirri Global ...