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HESTA hunts for portfolio construction and risk specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... the investment leadership team Before his four years with HESTA, Sommers held leadership positions at Frontier Advisors, Bank of Scotland, and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. He spent seven years at Frontier Advisors as head of alternatives and derivatives. ...

Global active equity managers suffer their worst year in decades

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
Global active equity managers faced their toughest year in over two decades in 2024, according to Frontier Advisors. Frontier Advisors said heightened market concentration and US equity dominance created formidable headwinds, with most managers struggling ...

Property developer, investment firm goes 'all in' on Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
Property development, construction, and investment firm Oreana has launched its investments business to the Australian market, including a new fund. Oreana's funds management business was established in Asia in 2017, but the firm said it's now ...

ASIC turns up the heat on private markets

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... forth a host of reasons why the sector may need its intervention. ASIC defines private markets as "private capital funds, non-bank financial lending and investments made by institutional investors directly into asset classes such as private companies ...

TAL taps ex-CBA deputy as chair

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... succeed Mark Joiner, who stepped down late last year, while also adding another non-executive director. Former Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) deputy chief David Cohen, a 16-year veteran of the bank, will take over as TAL's chair on April 1. Before ...

Deflation continues, albeit slowly

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... agreed the data showed positive momentum in keeping inflation down, but the focus needs to be on keeping it within the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) target range of 2-3%. "While market consensus has shifted towards an 80% probability of the next ...

Macquarie shutters 30-year-old fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... terminated the Macquarie Master Capital Stable Fund, claiming the fund does not have "sufficient scale" to remain viable. The bank has commenced the wind-up of the fund's assets and unitholders' share of the net proceeds of the termination will be calculated ...

Monetary policy not the only game in town: Brian Redican

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... because of the inflationary nature of this type of spending," Redican said. He added that it won't matter whether the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cuts or hikes rates, "this spending is going to keep on going and driving the economy." Beyond defence ...

Solutions to avoid concentration risk: Scientific Beta

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
The increasing dominance of giant technology stocks poses "significant challenges" for superannuation funds and other institutional investors, as index solutions provider Scientific Beta touts two possible approaches to better manage concentration risk. ...

ASIC clearing and settlements powers to curb ASX monopoly

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... and effective competition in clearing and/or settlement should a competitor emerge. ASIC co-regulates CS with the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), namely over the four CS facilities in the ASX group: two central counterparties - ASX Clear and ASX Clear ...