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GSFM to distribute new strategy in Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2024
... offerings. In the context of Alantra, the EQMC product is a highly concentrated small-cap fund that owns European-domiciled companies that generate revenues globally. McIntyre said the strategy focuses on companies with a market cap of up to €2 billion ...

PrimaryMarkets launches new financial adviser channel

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2024
... The platform affords advisers and their client's access to a spectrum of investment opportunities, including unlisted companies, many of which are pre-IPO, as well as open and closed managed funds. It also allows users to sell shares in unlisted companies ...

Financial services firms concerned about attracting staff

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2024
... company's ability to attract skilled talent this year, research from Robert Half found. The research suggested what companies are offering fails to meet candidates' expectations. The research reveals 89% of employers and 71% of employees believe their ...

NovaPort Capital team calls it a day

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
... While Fidante considered finding an alternative investment manager for the NovaPort Microcap Fund and NovaPort Smaller Companies Fund, it said the uncertainty of doing so coupled with the result of the business review and expected decline in flows ultimately ...

Seven fund managers scoop up First Sentier mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024
... since FSI made an announcement it is closing its Australian fixed income, global credit, equity income, and emerging companies units, and losing some $14 billion in assets under management. Macquarie Investment Management is set to take home three new ...

Magellan advances MGF conversion to open class

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
... at the end of April. MGF's NAV per unit as of May 16 was $2.24. It invests in a concentrated portfolio of 20-40 companies and seeks to achieve risk-adjusted not benchmark-relative returns. MGF aims to deliver 9% p.a. net of fees over the economic ...

Value versus growth: Market expectations in 2024

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2024
... headwind for growth stocks. However, by the second half of 2023, it became more of a "stock picker's market," where companies that met or exceeded earnings expectations and had strong outlooks saw positive stock price reactions. He said it didn't matter ...

CalSTRS appoints chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2024
... in how we invest, including advancing sustainability practices and promoting diversity across CalSTRS, our portfolio companies, partners and the industry," he said. Before joining CalSTRS, Chan was senior managing director of the University of California ...

Price dislocations pave way for active managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... outside of the US, according to J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Every time the spread widens out between the most expensive companies and cheapest companies - which is where the market currently is today - it indicates that there's a lot of price dislocation ...

Spaceship expands Voyager suite

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... ETFs, and investors pay $2 a month plus a management fee of 0.25% per year. Meantime, the Galaxy portfolio invests in companies that meet Spaceship's 'Where the World is Going' criteria, with some bond and cash assets in the mix as well. It targets medium ...