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UK manager recruits Australia head

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2024
... business and relationships in the region." BlueCove head of business development Ulrich Koall added: "BlueCove applies an active scientific approach to fixed income investing, providing both a complement and alternative to traditional fixed income investing." ...

Hostplus rejects anti-competitive behaviour claims

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024
Hostplus rejects claims it is promoting anti-competitive behaviour in attempting to ban human resources technology platforms from offering employees choice of superannuation funds at the onboarding process. Employment Hero chief executive Ben Thompson ...

Iress share price jumps on takeover rumours

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2024
Iress saw its share price skyrocket 15% as speculation swirled that a global private equity firm is keen on a buyout. An article in the AFR claiming US private equity investor Thoma Bravo is eyeing Iress sent investors into a tailspin, bumping up the ...

Best default super funds revealed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... High Growth investment option leads with an 8.5% return. TelstraSuper Corporate Plus - MySuper Growth followed at 8%, with Active Super's High Growth option not far behind at 7.8%. Looking at a 10-year performance period, Active Super achieved the ...

ASIC cracks down on scammers

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... 'Quantum Trade Wave'. The National Anti-Scam Centre's investment scam fusion cell, co-led by the ACCC and ASIC, has been active in disrupting investment scams such as online investment trading platform scams. "In addition to referring these scam ads ...

Vanguard chief executive Tim Buckley to retire

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
Vanguard chief executive and chair Tim Buckley has announced his retirement, set for the end of 2024, after three decades at the investment manager. Vanguard's board of directors is actively searching for Buckley's successor, considering both ...

Large-cap equity funds continue underperformance: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
Large-cap active equity fund managers turned in their second-worst year of underperformance as 77% failed to beat their benchmark, the latest SPIVA study shows. Aussie large-cap managers suffered their worst-performing period in 2023 - not since 2018 ...

Realindex Investments marks 15 years with rebrand

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
... company's evolution and growth. "It's a nod to our history as Realindex and represents who we are today as a well-established active quantitative equities house," he said. "We aim to deliver cutting-edge insights to our clients in terms of our research ...

Bloom Impact, MSC pulled up for greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
... currently has three greenwashing-related civil penalty actions before the Federal Court - Vanguard Investments Australia and Active Super, while a tentative agreement has been reached with Mercer Super for civil penalty actions under which Mercer will ...

Copia seals distribution partnership

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
Copia Investment Partners has won a partnership with HSBC Asset Management to distribute a strategy to retail investors. Copia will make the HSBC Global Infrastructure Equity Fund available to retail investors after it was launched to the institutional ...