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Further tightening of monetary policy may be required: RBA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023
... that inflation was forecasted to remain above target for an extended period. "Members noted that several Consumer Price Index (CPI) categories for which inflation was typically quite persistent already had too high inflation, including rent and services ...

Hostplus tops up mandate, returns 8% to members

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023
Hostplus invested an additional $100 million in venture capital projects, while also confirming it returned 8% to members in its MySuper Balanced option. The fund invested a further $100 million with IP Group Australia, via its joint fund. To date ...

Office sector down 8%: MSCI

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
... funds recorded a -5.2% fall in capital growth, according to the MSCI/Mercer Australia Core Wholesale Monthly Property Fund Index. Offices represent 37% of the sector. The sector is being "pummelled by concerns of excessively optimistic past valuations ...

Brighter Super sees double-digit returns

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2023
Brighter Super has reported double-digit returns across several of its investment options for FY23, owing largely to its oversized equities allocations. Brighter Super's MySuper option produced a 12-month return of 10.62%, while its Growth option returned ...

Aware Super returns 10.7% for FY23

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2023
The super fund delivered 10.7% to members sitting in its default MySuper Lifecycle option, with investment chief Damian Graham saying a pivot away from certain unlisted asset sectors proved the right call. Aware's default MySuper option is a lifecycle ...

BlackRock drops more ETF fees

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2023
... iShares Core Composite Bond ETF (IAF). "Following our announcement earlier this year to significantly lower the cost of core index exposures, we have seen a range of market participants respond to our move that, in turn, has delivered a win-win outcome ...

HESTA generates 9.59% investment return

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2023
HESTA has delivered a 9.59% return for its balanced growth investment option. The balanced growth investment option, which most of the industry fund's one million members are invested in, was buoyed by strong equity market performance, bolstered by ...

AustralianSuper posts solid return for FY23

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
... AustralianSuper has posted an 8.22% return for its balanced investment option. Of note, the Rainmaker MySuper performance index benchmark is likely to yield a return around 9%. AustralianSuper chief investment officer Mark Delaney said that the fund ...

Global X launches commodities ETF

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
... its first broad-based commodity ETF down under, the Bloomberg Commodity ETF (BCOM). BCOM tracks the Bloomberg Commodity Index 3-Month Forward Excess Return, offering investors access to both soft and hard commodities such as grains, energy, precious ...

MySuper products bounce back: Data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
... positive months in the year, while the latter delivered nine. Note, the long-term correlation between the ASX and MySuper index is 0.94. Therefore, Rainmaker's MySuper performance index is likely to deliver a return of about 9%, the research house ...