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Expand bolsters SMA menu

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
... Elston, Lonsec and Zenith have been added to the Expand Extra menu, doubling the wrap platform's separately managed account (SMA) offerings. The additional investment managers complement the current fleet of MLC Asset Management, Antares, Ausbil, JBWere ...

Monash Investors merges with DMX AM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
Monash Investors has confirmed the completed merger with DMX Asset Management as of August 12. Following the merger, DMX AM portfolio manager Michael Haddad has been named co-portfolio manager with Monash Investors. "Michael hit the ground running ...

First Sentier farewells senior portfolio manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
First Sentier Investors' high-profile small companies team has lost one of its longest-serving members. The small and mid-cap fund group led by Dawn Kanelleas has farewelled senior portfolio manager Pavlos Totsis. Totsis - along with Kanelleas and ...

Vanguard, Betashares, iShares neck and neck in battle for inflows

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
Vanguard, Betashares, iShares, and VanEck have attracted most of the ETF inflows in Australia for 2024, with competition among these issuers fierce. Vanguard led with $4.07 billion in inflows, followed by local player Betashares with $3.98 billion ...

Dimensional to launch three more ETFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) is converting three additional products to dual-access funds, which it hopes will start trading as ETFs as early as next week. The Dimensional Australian Value Trust, Global Value Trust, and Global Small Company Trust ...

Iress snags Insignia Financial executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
Iress, the advice software provider, has appointed a new executive to run its superannuation business, hiring from Insignia Financial. Sam Wall has over 25 years' experience in superannuation, investments, wealth and insurance, leading teams across ...

What Yarra Capital is buying in the dip

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
Global markets were rocked at the start of this week over fears of a potential US recession after a higher-than-expected jump in US unemployment figures. But Yarra Capital head of macro and strategy Tim Toohey said while the risk of a recession in the ...

Australia sees jump in zombie companies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
A new study from global consulting firm Kearney revealed the number of zombie companies in Australia increased 13.6% in the past year. Zombie companies - those which don't produce enough profits to cover debt obligations - now account for 5.8% of ...

Australians urged to consider bequests amid $5.4tn wealth transfer

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
JBWere's The Bequest Report found that only $1.3 billion, which is equivalent to 1% of the estimated $150 billion in inheritance, will be donated to charity this year. This compares to 1% ($229m) in New Zealand, 3.7% ($7.6bn) in the UK, and 4.4% ...

RBA on hold: Experts split on 2024 cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) left interest rates unchanged at 4.35% at its August board meeting. RBA governor Michele Bullock said the case for an interest rate cut in the near-term was not a likely scenario. "Based on what I know today and what ...