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Netwealth to distribute private markets offering

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023
Netwealth has entered a strategic partnership with New York-based fintech platform iCapital, broadening access to global private credit markets and hedge funds for financial advice firms and their wholesale clients in Australia. Netwealth managing director ...

Best and worst ETFs of past 12 months

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2023
... assets driven by net outflows from investors. Two of Magellan's ETFs, the Magellan Global Fund - Open Class Units (Managed Fund) (MGOC) and the Magellan Infrastructure Fund (Currency Hedged) (Managed Fund) (MICH) experienced asset decreases of $2.1 billion ...

Multi-asset funds see $1bn exodus

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2023
Multi-asset funds recorded their fourth consecutive quarter of outflows, losing nearly $1 billion in the last 12 months, new data from Calastone finds. The year to September 2023 saw multi-asset funds suffer $974 million in outflows, the longest run ...

Private credit boom sweeps Australia

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2023
The private credit boom shows no signs of abating as a spate of wealth managers step into traditional lending practices once dominated by banks. But how long will its golden hour last? After a prolonged low-growth period, fund managers are swooping ...

UniSuper partners to buy Tasmanian timber plantation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023
... UniSuper and a consortium of European pension funds have acquired a Tasmanian forestry estate from a New Forests managed fund. UniSuper, the UK's Pension Protection Fund (PPF), and APG Asset Management N.V (APG) on behalf of its Dutch pension fund client ...

Iress completes $52m sale of MFA business to SS&C

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023
Iress has finalised the $52 million sale of its Managed Funds Administration (MFA) business to SS&C, while also kicking off the divestment process for its Platforms unit. In August, the financial services software company revealed that SS&C would acquire ...

Nanuk hires from Ellerston

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2023
... support the firm's ongoing growth. "This year, we've seen growing interest in Nanuk's active ETF and managed fund coupled with the recent launch of an AUD currency hedged unit class leading to FUA exceeding $700 million. This interest has ...

Aussie investors tighten purse strings: Survey

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023
Close to 80% of local investors adjusted their investment strategy towards a more conservative approach in the last six months, according to HSBC's latest investor survey. The second iteration of the group's Investor Insights Survey found that ...

Responsible investment AUM drops: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2023
Assets under management in the responsible investment industry dropped by nearly $250 billion in 2022, according to the latest Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) report. For the first time in years, the total responsible investment ...

Most Australian actively managed funds lag the index

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2023
In the first half of 2023, 55% of Australian equity funds underperformed the S&P/ASX 200 index, according to the S&P Global SPIVA Australia Scorecard. But the S&P Global SPIVA Australia Scorecard - which measures the performance of actively managed ...