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TelstraSuper Balanced option makes 9.3%

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2025
... foreign equity markets generally experienced positive returns. The MSCI World excluding Australia Index returned 3.8% on a currency hedged basis and 2.5% in AUD unhedged terms. The best-performing major foreign equity market was the Japanese Nikkei 225 ...

Northern Trust selected to test tokenised asset uses

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... settlement assets for the use cases include stablecoins, bank deposit tokens, and pilot wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC), as well as new ways of using banks' existing exchange settlement accounts at the RBA. ASIC said it has cleared way ...

ETF market breaks through $280bn

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... performing ETFs in the first half of the year were Global X Defence Tech (DTEC); Betashares Global Gold Miners ETF - Currency Hedged (MNRS); VanEck Global Defence ETF (DNFD); VanEck Global Gold Miners ETF; Global X Physical Palladium (ETPMPT); Betashares ...

Movers and shakers: Cbus, HESTA, Rest, Minderoo and Colonial First State

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... started her career there as a graduate analyst and left as an associate portfolio manager in the fixed income, credit and currency team. Meanwhile, Simon Beeny has been promoted to senior portfolio manager at HESTA. Beeny joined the $93 billion fund ...

Airlie calls time on Concentrated Share Fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... "market making for the fund has been temporarily impacted by operational issues." The others affected were the Infra Fund (Currency Hedged) Active ETF, Global Equities Fund (Currency Hedged) Active ETF and Global Fund Open Class Units Active ETF. Trading ...

DeepSeek, Alibaba: Silver linings for emerging markets strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... of subjectivity to it. How do you quantify the impact of an election on a market? How do you quantify the impact of a currency move on a market?" she asks. "You don't, because part of it is dependent on how strong and stable your foundations for ...

Future Fund bags a piece of Transgrid

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... wealth fund's risk and return objectives and will help safeguard the portfolio from higher inflation, interest rates, and currency volatility. Future Fund director of infrastructure Peter McCosker, meanwhile, said the investment, which is "a valuable ...

Cointree hit with AUSTRAC fine

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... said. In 2024, AUSTRAC released the Money Laundering in Australia National Risk Assessment which identified the digital currency exchange (DCE) sector as being vulnerable to money laundering due to its speed, global reach, pseudonymity and ability to ...

Analyst promotions: Frontier, Fidelity, ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
... Andrew Woo to associate portfolio manager for defensive and liquid assets and portfolio intelligence. The fixed income and currency specialist previously served as a senior portfolio analyst, focusing on manager selection within the fixed-income universe. ...

The top-performing (and worst) asset classes of the past year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... from overseas assets last year, as the Aussie dollar weakened against the US dollar. Australian equities, unaffected by currency fluctuations, pocketed an 11% return, catapulted forward by strong performance in the banking sector. More defensive asset ...