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ASX-listed companies flock to private markets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2024
... trend of more delistings than new market entries, indicative of a shift towards private markets. The total ASX-listed companies dropped from 2289 in February last year to 2183 in February 2024, a near 1% decrease with 106 fewer companies. By February ...

Female fund managers boast 1.2% alpha

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2024
... Management portfolio manager and director Katie Hudson, and First Sentier Investors head of Australian small and mid-cap companies Dawn Kanelleas. The trio scored highly on the analysts' People rating, one of three assessment pillars that include Parent ...

Blackwattle Partners launches global fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... spread their investments thinly across a wide range of opportunities, our fund only focuses on the very best possible companies," Bangia said. "Our all-wealth approach to quality investing allows us to recognise a company's persistent competitive ...

'ASX Wolf' Tyson Scholz bankrupt in ASIC crackdown

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... operation of an unlicensed financial services business from March 2020 to November 2021. Scholz shared posts on specific companies via Instagram, suggesting he owned shares or viewed them as good investments, likely swaying his audience to buy these ...

Large-cap equity funds continue underperformance: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... tend to move together driven by the same macro drivers such as monetary policy or pandemic, it is difficult to pick the companies that outperform or namely the idiosyncratic risk that fund managers face, she told Financial Standard. "When the dispersion ...

Realindex Investments marks 15 years with rebrand

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
... global growth, "given the breadth of our strategies which include global equities, emerging markets and global small companies." "Although our name has changed, we remain unwavering in our steady conviction in our active investment capabilities, our ...

Bloom Impact, MSC pulled up for greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
... including in fossil fuels, ASIC outlined. ASIC said the Bloom Fund used revenue thresholds which allowed it to invest in companies that derived up to 33% revenue from excluded activities, such as fossil fuels. "ASIC contends these revenue thresholds ...

GBST upgrades WealthConnect platform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... with multi-entity scenario modelling, offering increased flexibility in modelling strategic advice for individuals, companies, trusts, and SMSFs. Additionally, GBST ushered in an "electronic consent capture" to enhance efficiencies without compromising ...

Copia seals distribution partnership

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... the institutional and wholesale market in 2022. The actively managed fund invests in 30 to 45 global infrastructure companies, specifically those operating in utilities, energy, transportation, and communications, that aim to provide long-term total ...

TelstraSuper sweetens parental leave policy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... recognise the role they can play in helping improve retirement outcomes for women." The new policy follows the release of companies' mandatory pay gap reports by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) yesterday. According to the WGEA, TelstraSuper ...