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Foreign investors optimistic about Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
Foreign investors are feeling particularly optimistic about Australia, according to Kearney's Global Business Policy Council's 2024 Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index (FDICI). The survey, which reflects investor sentiment regarding foreign direct ...

ETF market to soar 30%: State Street

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024
... purchase ETFs are generally fee sensitive and are only willing to pay more if there is value," he said. State Street's latest Global ETF outlook also predicts that the active ETF segment will recover from its 2022 slowdown when flows sunk to US$1.4 billon. ...

Regal shutters East Point AM

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024
... particularly strong across the long/short equities strategies. "This included favourable investment performance across global equities (PM Capital and VGI Partners) and a range of Regal Funds Management strategies including Absolute Return, Market Neutral ...

Morningstar warns of stretched valuations in Australian equities

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024
... prices for banks and other recent winners, including consumer cyclicals, REITs, and tech stocks," he said. "Geopolitics and global conflicts, China's stimulus inflating commodities, and an acceleration in deglobalisation, such as shifting supply chains ...

Rest teams up with Fidelity to launch new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024
... Decarbonising operations was becoming a priority for businesses, and this is expected to continue, said Lill. "Around 40% of total global carbon emissions come from real estate. With 85% of Europe's buildings over 20 years old, improving them provides ...

IMF flags concerns over 'risky' private credit market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024
The International Monetary Find (IMF) has raised concerns over the growing private credit market, which topped US$2.1 trillion in assets and committed capital globally last year. The private credit market, which specialises in non-bank financial institutions ...

Monochrome makes play to become a spot Bitcoin ETF in Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
... region." Despite this development, the quotation of the fund is subject to market operator and regulatory approvals. Notably, Global X launched the first spot bitcoin ETF in Australia in May 2022. It is structured as a dual trust where each ETF unit ...

Australian housing crisis escalates as affordability worsens

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
... cash rate. "We still expect the first rate cut of 25 basis points will not be until November 2024; and the RBA will lag global easing," UBS economists said. "We still see a relatively slow easing cycle of 25 basis points per quarter, to 3.10% by end- ...

Forager schedules LIT delisting

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
... underperformed the benchmarks or 6.75% versus 9.52% respectively. Its top five holdings at the end of February were RPM Global, Readytech, Tourism Holdings, Hipages and Catapult Group. Forager has some $380 million of funds under management.

L1 Capital joint MD takes leave of absence

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2024
... ASX-listed Long Short Fund (LSF), which predominantly invests in Australian and New Zealand securities and up to 30% in global shares, returned 8.1% in the month of March, outpacing the index's 3.3%. Fifteen stocks contributed more than 0.4% to its ...