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Blue Owl adds to local team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... years with NAB Asset Management, she managed the distribution and brought across investors into a new MLC private equity fund. Blue Owl specialises in financing private equity-backed acquisitions, buying stakes in private firms and investing in real ...

Gold ETFs outshine large caps: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
Gold ETFs recorded stellar performances in Rainmaker's latest analysis of wholesale managed funds, achieving between 43% p.a. and 50% p.a. which trumped returns of popular large-cap equity funds. VanEck's Gold Miners ETF, which invests in a diversified ...

Managed fund inflows jump over 20x: Report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
Managed funds domiciled in Australia received $8.6 billion in inflows from January to May this year, over 20 times the level recorded over the same period last year, according to global funds network Calastone. Calastone said local investors appeared ...

Boutiques wield independence, specialisation over larger managers: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
New research shows that boutique fund managers count their independence, specialist strategies and ability to align interests with clients as their main competitive advantage and what helps them earn the "boutique premium" over bigger players. The survey ...

Financial Standard names Investment Manager of the Year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... Macquarie Australian Enhanced Plus Equities Fund, Macquarie Australian Small Companies Fund, and Arrowstreet Global Equity Fund, respectively. Acadian Asset Management, MLC Asset Management, Perpetual Investment Management, and Vanguard were the other ...

Touchstone closes flagship fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
Touchstone Asset Management has closed its flagship Australian equity fund nearly a decade after it launched. The Touchstone Index Unaware Fund shuttered in May, having been in operation since 4 April 2016. The fund aimed to outperform the return of ...

Allan Gray exposes 'hateful eight' bubble threat

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... distractions, shifting attention away from long-term fundamentals," Mawhinney said. Notably, that the Allan Gray Australia Equity Fund is underweight the large companies dominating the index due to its contrarian investment style, resulting in what it ...

GAM nabs Janus Henderson equities team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... GAM's specialist active equities platform and our clients," he said. O'Hara brings seven years of European equity fund management experience from Janus Henderson, having previously spent eight years as a sell-side equity research analyst. Ross ...

Magellan sees $1bn monthly outflows

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... Alpha Extension Fund, which took effect on April 17. The Vinva Global Alpha Extension Fund is the fourth systematic equity fund offered in connection with Magellan's strategic partnership with Vinva Investment Management. Magellan's AUM is now almost ...

Super moves: Cbus, ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
Funds SA deputy chief investment officer and director of equities has jumped to Cbus Super, the industry fund for building and construction workers. After seven years with the $46 billion investment corporation owned by the government of South Australia ...