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Orbis recruits investment specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
Orbis Investments, the contrarian equity manager with $62 billion assets under management, has hired an investment specialist to work with its local client team. Based in Melbourne, Werner du Preez will oversee Orbis' relationships with research ...

Quant fund hires from JP Morgan

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... manager's assets under management, focusing on wholesale and institutional clients. Haslinger served as co-head of equity capital markets at the US investment banking giant and earlier worked at Deutsche Bank, She is also a non-executive director ...

Best Australian share funds of 2024: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... prices rewarded with significant re-ratings," Gregory said. Rounding out the top five was the Acadian Australian Long Short Equity Fund with a 23.3% return. Acadian Australia head of investments Jean Christophe De Beaulieu said strong stock selection ...

Franklin Templeton folds Martin Currie into affiliates

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
... will fold Martin Currie, the US$17.9 billion fund manager, into its other brands, ClearBridge Investments and Franklin Equity Group. Martin Currie's Australia, UK, and global emerging markets investment and sustainability teams will move under ClearBridge ...

Quant fund taps new chief executive

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
The former co-head of equity capital markets at J.P. Morgan has been appointed chief executive of boutique quantitative fund manager East Coast Capital Management (ECCM). Simone Haslinger, the new chief executive, left J.P. Morgan last October after ...

Bumpy roads ahead for traditional active managers

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
... Industry Pulse report on listed asset managers for the December quarter, active managers are losing shares in traditional equity and fixed income strategies. Although the net flows have improved among active managers for the fifth consecutive quarter ...

Martin Currie adds to active ETF stable

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... are held. R3AL is managed by Martin Currie portfolio managers Ashton Reid and Andrew Chambers. Reid said: "With ongoing equity market volatility, investors are seeking stable and growing income streams. Real assets are the backbone of society, so even ...

Climate funds see first year of outflows

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
... Morningstar Sustainalytics sustainable investing research head Hortense Bioy. The median return for sustainable large-blend equity funds was 20.7% in 2024 - compared to 21.5% for conventional funds and 24.1% for the Morningstar US Market Index. US sustainable ...

Salter Brothers secures green loan for luxury retreat

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
... across energy efficiency, consumption, and onsite renewables. Salter Brothers specialises in property, credit and private equity. It recently bought three Bannisters hotels on the north and south coasts of New South Wales with a green loan also financed ...

Depreciating Aussie dollar could prove opportunistic

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
... capitalise from the stronger US dollar, with the weakened Australian dollar to also boost M&A activities. "For a US private equity firm or corporate acquirer, the valuation of companies in Australia is now 10% cheaper than it was last quarter, so we ...