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Active funds continue underperformance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2022
S&P Dow Jones Indices SPIVA Australia Scorecard has revealed just over half of Australian equities funds beat their benchmarks last year, with active funds underperforming. Last year, just over half of Australian funds in the Equity General and Equity ...

PIMCO preps long-awaited LIT launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2022
In what will be more than two years after its launch was initially flagged, PIMCO's first local listed investment trust will begin trading on the ASX next month. Plans for the LIT were first announced in November 2019, with the fixed income giant anticipating ...

Magellan loses $5bn in fortnight

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2022
Magellan Financial Group reported another massive outflow in which $5 billion left the ASX-listed fund manager in two weeks. This brings total funds under management to $69.1 billion as at March 11. Some $4.7 billion of the most recent outflows came ...

Tiger Trade debuts down under

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2022
The Singapore-based online investing platform launched in Australia last week and has already more than tripled its downloads. Tiger Trade has is now the ninth most popular finance app spot in Google Play Australia. Before its entry into Australia ...

Stake adds crypto to platform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2022
As cryptocurrency continues to enjoy mainstream uptake, trading platform Stake has added the option of crypto to its platform. "The decision to take on cryptocurrency was a natural step in offering our customers greater access to financial opportunities," ...

Aussie small-cap fund returns 40%

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2022
A Bennelong small-caps fund outperformed the index nearly fourfold over the last three years, an analysis of the sector shows. The Bennelong Funds Management Emerging Companies Fund returned 40.4% p.a., Rainmaker's research on the wholesale funds ...

ASIC to strengthen market integrity rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2022
ASIC is introducing changes to its market integrity rules in a bid to evade further technological glitches. As of 10 March 2023, financial markets and participants can broadly expect changes to technological and operational rules across information ...

Alpha females

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
The integration of environmental, social and governance concerns (ESG) into investment decisions has well and truly gone mainstream - but there is one element of governance that still flies under the radar for many investors. That is, gender diversity ...

AGL rejects another takeover bid

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2022
AGL Energy has rejected another takeover bid offer made by the consortium led by Atlassian's Mike Cannon-Brookes. The $8.25 per share offer "is still well below both the fair value" of the company, the AGL board told the ASX this morning. Cannon-Brookes ...

Saxo Markets Australia rolls out new platform

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
Saxo Markets has launched a new investment platform designed to make investing simple, intuitive, and personalised for retail investors. The platform, dubbed SaxoInvestor, provides access to research content and investment themes, in addition to over ...