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Pensioners to pay more under aged care reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024
Many recipients of the Age Pension will pay more for aged care under proposed reforms to how the sector is funded, with wealthier Australians to cover more of the costs they incur from July 2025. With the nation's annual aged care expenses predicted ...

Former industry fund chief in new role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024
... independent manager. "Quek and the Prime Value team have built an impressive product suite around high-performing funds where active management makes a big difference, including the small-cap Prime Value Emerging Opportunities Fund, which is available ...

Dimensional hires institutional sales lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024
Global wealth firm Dimensional Fund Advisors has appointed a new institutional sales lead. Gemma Bjarnason's appointment raises the local distribution team to six. Bjarnason is tasked with further developing the institutional business and working ...

Lazard AM brings Japanese equities fund to Australia

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2024
... The launch follows that of Lazard's ETF offerings in Australia earlier this year, which saw a $2 billion infrastructure active ETF enter the local market. The Global Listed Infrastructure Active ETF eyes investments in operators across electricity networks ...

Australians rank seventh globally for retirement confidence

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024
A Natixis Investment Managers study shows 40% of Australians don't think they'll be able to fund their own retirement, while 50% are actively avoiding thinking about it. Still, they're faring better than many other nations. According to the 2024 Natixis ...

Metrics to list CRE fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2024
... Metric's two other strategies: Metrics Real Estate Multi-Strategy Passive Trust and Metrics Real Estate Multi-Strategy Active Trust. Some 50% of funds will be deployed in the passive trust, which has exposure to diversified commercial real estate ...

Passive funds save $14.4bn in fees: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024
... Vanguard analysis. While costs overall have decreased since 1998, Vanguard found the difference in management fees between active and index funds on average is still substantial. The ongoing reductions in the asset-weighted expense ratios of Australian-domiciled ...

Macquarie AM launches emerging markets equity ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
Macquarie Focused Emerging Markets Equity ETF is the latest addition to the Macquarie Asset Management's (MAM) active ETF platform, listing on the Nasdaq yesterday. The new fund (Nasdaq: EMEQ) is managed by the firm's emerging markets equity team - ...

abrdn closes hedge fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
... experience material declines and volatility is high. This was done by combining diversified hedging strategies into "one active solution and is convex" meaning that as developed equity markets fall, its rate of gain increases. The fund returned -10.5% ...

Schroders expands stable of global equity funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024
... achieving successful long-term performance. This sets the scene for a valuation reset and a return to fundamentals-led, active equity investing principles. "Achieving success in this era seems more likely with a nimble global equity fund that can adapt ...
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