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Family offices up active management, eye generative AI: UBS

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024
... more on manager selection and/or active management to enhance portfolio diversification, up 4% from 2023." High-quality short duration fixed income is the second most popular strategy, with 35% of family offices diversifying in this way, while 33% are ...

ISPT to divest $250m in super prime assets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
... said the ISPT portfolio presents an array of investment opportunities with varied strategies and risk profiles, offering short-term upside through rental reversion and asset optimisation, complemented by long-term leases for cutting-edge logistics assets. ...

Fidelity shutters, delists funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
... an international fixed interest strategy that failed to scale, as well as delisting a managed fund. The Fidelity Global Short Duration Income Fund focuses on investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds that have a low duration. The fund ceases operating ...

Seven fund managers scoop up First Sentier mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024
Colonial First State (CFS) flags it will appoint seven new managers to take over several mandates that will be vacated by First Sentier Investments (FSI) following the shock closure of four local investment teams. CFS has said it has been "actively ...

Liberals respond to Federal Budget

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
... follow the example of major economies that use or are considering nuclear power and increase domestic gas production in the short term. To support this, he proposed unlocking gas reserves in key areas like the Beetaloo Basin, defunding the Environmental ...

Sequoia seeks Takeovers Panel intervention

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
... currently undertaking their Professional Year. Another assertion stated that about $11 million was spent on acquisitions in a short period of time, mainly on small books from retiring advisers. Crole and Pattison said this was "inaccurate and misleading". ...

Magellan advances MGF conversion to open class

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
Magellan Asset Management will go ahead with converting its Global Fund (ASX: MGF) into an open class structure. As the fund's responsible entity, Magellan Asset Management has advanced the conversion process since it was flagged in October of last ...

Poor gender diversity not a 'women's problem': Panel

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... while the entire organisation boasts a 50% gender balance. Moreover, VFMC decreased its gender pay gap from 26% to 16% in a short space of time. This was made possible by its leaders making a concerted effort to be deliberate in becoming a gender-balanced ...

Australia requires swifter settlement cycle: SIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
Australia is at risk of getting left behind if it does not adopt the T+1 settlement cycle along with major global financial centres, according to operations experts who spoke at the Stockbrokers and Investment Advisers Association Conference (SIAA) ...

Wholesale investor test reform has several ramifications: SIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
Proposed changes to the wholesale investor test potentially have sprawling ramifications for financial advisers and is something some experts say will need to be thoroughly nutted out before the government pushes any reforms over the line. Potentially ...