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HESTA hits $100bn in assets

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... the increased scale helps the fund to access a larger and more diverse range of high-quality investments and provide economies of scale to keep costs down over time. "Far more than a milestone, we believe this growth enables us to deliver greater value ...

Retail investors want true hedge fund exposure: Morningstar

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... Over the last 20 years, this correlation between bonds and equities often turned positive when inflation in advanced economies averaged above 2%. "With this threshold expected to be breached over the next five years, investors may increasingly seek exposures ...

Geopolitics, AI tests prudential regulation: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2025
... accordingly?" APRA's latest Corporate Plan highlights how heightened geopolitical tensions and policy uncertainty in major economies have the potential to create risks to financial stability. "In this environment, the importance of a robust prudential ...

CBA appoints head of Australian economics

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
... head of international economics and foreign exchange, responsible for developing CBA's forecasts for the major global economies, central bank policy and currencies. "The refresh of our GEMR team underscores our commitment to delivering sharp, actionable ...

APRA sets higher cybersecurity expectations for trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
... increasingly complex and uncertain operating environment. "Heightened geopolitical tensions and policy uncertainty in major economies have the potential to create risks to financial stability. In this environment, the importance of a robust prudential ...

Betashares adds emerging markets ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
... sectors such as technology, financials, consumer goods and resources. These companies span across more than 20 emerging economies including Asia, Latin America, eastern Europe and Africa. BEMG tracks the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and incurs a management ...

Special feature: Hunting for value

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... reverted. China, which had been a headwind, was beginning to stimulate its economy while the weaker US dollar was supporting economies which were "less fiscally encumbered." All this is encouraging for active managers who are comfortable with the risks ...

ASIC calls out super 'leaders and laggards'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
... who invest in them," Constant said. "In an environment where super funds are generally getting bigger and maximising economies of scale, it's an important reminder that bigger has to be better too - or it won't stay that way." Constant added that while ...

Chalmers calls for solutions, not problems

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... resilience paper identified growing global uncertainty, including supply chain issues, and greater power struggles between economies, as major threats to Australia's economy. It also pointed to the population ageing, shifts in industrial composition ...

Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... management across asset classes. "If you believe in American exceptionalism, and that American consumers, businesses, economies are going to benefit from this then you want active management to pick the sectors and stocks that will benefit," he said. ...