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WAM delivers standout 41% return in 2025

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2026
... weightage was in Lindian Resources, an Australian critical mineral explorer, which jumped by more than 400% in price in the last year. Lindian Resources mines rare earths and bauxite assets critical to electric vehicles and a range of industries. It's ...

Super funds' external fund manager spend hits $2bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2026
Superannuation funds spent more than $1.9 billion on external fund manager fees last financial year, with nearly 60% of the amount going to equity fund managers, according to APRA figures. The prudential regulator's breakdown of super funds' ...

Fund managers 'remarkably positive' despite headwinds: Frontier

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2026
... business growth between now and 2030. This figure peaked at 97.3% back in 2016 and plummeted to a low of 85.7% the following year. Between 2014 to 2017, nearly a third (30%) of fund managers found that "pressure from clients for fees to contract and ...

First Super chief to join rival as investment head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026
First Super chief executive Bill Watson will bid farewell to the fund for the paper, pulp and timber industries to take up a lead investment role. Watson is joining BUSSQ as chief investment officer, effective April. He has served as chief executive ...

No room for a neutral stance in 2026: BlackRock

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026
... boost to growth through productivity gains. We estimate that this would expand economy-wide revenues by $1.1 trillion per year - more than enough to justify the upper-end of spending," it said. Seeing this as an opportunity for active stock picking ...

China's two speed economies: Which one wins?

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026
... talking about companies. You see all these highly competitive companies in all different areas." China's government last year pledged to cut back on excessive competition in companies through its "anti-involution" campaign. It hopes to combat overcapacity ...

Super education leads to engagement, higher balances: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026
... super as one in four have never engaged with their super fund. Only 44% have engaged with their provider once or twice a year, the Retirement Confidence Pulse survey found. Only a minority at 8%, who were 50 years old and older, regularly checked their ...

Investors weigh risks amid Venezuelan crisis

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026
Oil prices have seen volatility globally after the US bombed Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro. Venezuela holds the world's largest proven oil reserves, estimated at more than 300 billion barrels, alongside substantial deposits of gold ...

Australians fearful of getting their investments wrong: CFS

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026
... one asset, despite data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showing national house prices rose just 3.5% in the year to 30 June 2025 and rental yields sitting a roughly 3%. Further, about half (50%) viewed cash-style products, such as high-interest ...

Deutsche Bank shares surpass book value for first time since GFC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026
... ourselves back in 2022," Sewing said when announcing the bank's 2025 Q3 results. Deutsche Bank saw revenues increase by 7% year on year, reaching €24.4 billion. "We are now on the verge of delivering what we set out to do three years ago. If we continue ...