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NZSF returns 17%, smashes benchmarks

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2024
... conventions New Zealand is a signatory to, as well as NZ law and Crown actions," Townsend said. "I'm conscious that the world is full of uncertainties and that the investment landscape is ever-changing. As the world gets more and more complicated ...

DNR Capital introduces new global equity fund manager

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024
... investment administration. The fund has returned 9.53% since its inception in December 2023. It has outperformed the MSCI World SMID Total Return Index by 1.42%. Tura Capital portfolio manager Brad Partridge explained that the investment process is designed ...

Platinum ends FY24 with $13bn FUM

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2024
... profit. The recent closure of its London office bid farewell to three staff members as well as UCIT funds in the Platinum World Portfolios (PWP), which comprised Platinum's International, Asia ex Japan, Japan and Health Sciences strategies. Today ...

Australia climbs global wealth ranks

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
... third place to second in terms of median wealth per adult, sitting just below Luxembourg. In 2023 wealth growth across the world recovered from its 3% contraction the previous year. The contraction in 2022 was largely attributable to currency effects ...

Government lifts funding to preserve banking in the Pacific

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
... additional $6.3 million to curb the rapid withdrawal of banking services in the Pacific. The funding includes $2.9 million to the World Bank for developing digital identity infrastructure across Pacific Island countries, $1.7 million to the Asian Development ...

World's largest pension fund returns 22.67%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
Japan's $2.27 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) reported a 22.67% return for the fiscal year ending 2023. This performance was driven primarily by domestic equities, which yielded 41.41% return, and foreign equities, which returned ...

Stake to operate under its own AFSL

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
... matures. "Airwallex is playing a leadership role in the fintech ecosystem by supporting our enterprise customers around the world through our proprietary infrastructure, including over 60 licenses," the spokesperson said. "We continue to work closely ...

QIC invests in Australian biotech start-up

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
... Enterprise Acceleration Fund, we're backing Gelomics' vision to become the new gold standard adopted by laboratories around the world and the jobs this will create for Queensland." Gelomics co-founder and chief executive Christoph Meinert said by improving ...

Global X launches currency hedged version of FANG+ ETF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
... movements, less the annual management fee (0.15% p.a.), by investing in physical gold bullion bars. It also pioneered the world's first physically backed gold exchange traded product (ASX: GOLD) in 2003, which remains the largest and most liquid of its ...

Rest's MySuper option returns 8.67% in FY24

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024
... in these companies. While inflation is trending in the right direction in most developed markets, Rest still believes the world is heading into a period of higher structural inflation and greater macroeconomic volatility than experienced in recent times. ...