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Atrium winds up global listed infrastructure fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... team since 2019, comprising Gerald Stack, Ofer Karliner, and Ben McVicar. The fund sought to invest in infrastructure companies trading at discounts to their assessed intrinsic value. It comprises between 20 to 40 companies. For one year, the fund returned ...

Depreciating Aussie dollar could prove opportunistic

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
... a result, consensus is still using $0.67- $0.68 to US$1.00 in a lot of their assumptions," Griffin said. He believes companies with offshore operations, such as US tech companies, can capitalise from the stronger US dollar, with the weakened Australian ...

Global dividend strength to continue: Plato

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
... senior portfolio manager Daniel Pennell said. "Looking forward, what's very encouraging is our data shows the number of companies that cut to zero remained very low in Q4 at just 5%, while over half (57.1%) of dividend paying companies increased or initiated ...

Tyndall bolsters small cap team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... manager, saying Phillips' skills and passion for investing make him a perfect fit for the firm's growing small companies franchise. Since 31 December 2024, the small caps business has delivered an annual return of 15.41% before fees since its ...

Chief executive misbehaviour stifles investment returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... would be wise to sharpen their focus on management quality and corporate governance to avoid being caught off guard, as companies with poorer corporate behaviour and culture have "consistently underperformed their peers both in Australia and globally," ...

Australian Ethical 'cautious' on valuations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... theme driving markets to new highs, and looking back, AI was definitely the star of the show, delivering huge gains for companies like NVIDIA, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google) and Meta platforms leading the AI revolution," it said. "While we continue to ...

Government must commit to fixing CSLR: FAAA

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... that they took so long to act." "ASIC's own submission to the Senate Economics Committee's Wealth Management Companies Inquiry admits that they initially undertook a significant surveillance exercise with respect to Dixon Advisory in 2015, yet ...

More climate exits as Trump takes charge

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
... decision "reflects our confidence that we can independently and effectively manage material risks and engage with portfolio companies to safeguard and grow our clients' capital." "We have made and continue to make investments that support our independent ...

Scarcity Partners enlists former Ophir Asset Management chief

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
... will play a "critical role" in expanding the company's fundraising efforts while supporting the growth of its portfolio companies, Scarcity Partners said. He'll work alongside Mathew Webb, one of Scarcity Partners' founding partners, and has been given ...

Ethical investment holdings double: CoreData

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
... since. "It comes down to growing awareness around ESG issues, and a better understanding around the risks of investing in companies that are negligent to ESG factors, or haven't considered climate risk in their future plans..." she said. "We've ...