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AMIST criticised for SPC investment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
Australian Meat Industry Superannuation Trust (AMIST) is being criticised for a recent investment in fruit packing giant SPC, due to the other party involved in the capital raise. AMIST made an investment in SPC in a capital raising. Peregrine Corporation ...

AFA responds to Quality of Advice Review

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
The Association of Financial Advisers hopes that the upcoming industry review will listen to the voices of clients and overhaul the advice process. In its submission to the draft terms of reference for the Quality of Advice Review, the AFA is calling ...

BetaShares launches new bond ETF

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2022
BetaShares has launched an Australian Composite Bond ETF, offering investors access to a diversified portfolio of Australian bonds. The new ETF, ticker code OZBD, aims to track the Bloomberg Australian Enhanced Yield Composite Bond Index, before fees ...

UniSuper adds three executives

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
The $110 billion superannuation fund has strengthened its C-suite with three newly created roles, hiring from MetLife, Sunsuper and Link Group. The new appointments include a chief member and advice officer, chief marketing and growth officer and chief ...

Stake offers $0 ASX brokerage

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
Investment platform Stake will offer its users $0 brokerage on ASX trades, but only if they refer other users. For each person a customer refers, their brokerage drops by $1 for one year. With brokerage currently at $3, three referrals can get customers ...

Pallas Capital markets new fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2022
Pallas Capital has introduced a new short term fund that will invest in real estate assets in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The Pallas Short Term Fund is a mortgage loan warehouse facility with a minimum investment term of six months and offers investors ...

Australians plough record cash into managed funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
Australian investors put almost three times as much cash into managed equity funds in 2021 as they did in 2020, according to the latest Fund Flow Index from Calastone. Fund inflows rose to $35.7 billion across all assets in 2021, up from $13.6 billion ...

GPT Group restructures

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
GPT Group (GPT) has announced today changes to its leadership team and adjustments to its organisational structure. To ensure the logistics sector has the appropriate strategic and operational focus, GPT has created a separate logistics business unit ...

Australia bucks concentration trend

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
New research on equity markets from S&P shows the ASX 200 has become more diversified as markets around the world have become more concentrated. "We can analyse stock concentration at a high level by using the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI). This ...

Water, water everywhere but nothing to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
Another two covid years over, a new one's just begun. Although still not proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, since the first bat flapped its covid wings in Wuhan (China), it has gone through several mutations - most notably, Alpha, Delta and now Omicron ...