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Lower interest rates conducive for bigger risk appetite, small caps

KARREN VERGARA | FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025

... to home. "This could favour small caps, which have much more domestic exposure than their larger peers, particularly in Japan and the US, where domestic revenues are 75% and 78% respectively. Small caps also have more exposure to sectors like industrials ...

Global stock markets rally, but Trump's next post could flip the script

ANDREW MCKEAN | TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025

Global stock markets roared back in May, staging a spectacular turnaround from the extreme volatility and negative returns that rattled most developed equity markets in April. But uncertainty still looms large. UniSuper head of fixed interest David ...

Dai-ichi Life acquires 15% of M&G

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025

... HD will accelerate M&G's expansion in European private markets, while opening new potential sources of business flows in Japan and across Asia," M&G said. "M&G will support Dai-ichi Life HD's access to public and private markets capabilities in Europe ...

Franklin Templeton, Pendal funds shutter

KARREN VERGARA | MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025

... Incepted on 22 August 1996, the fund aimed to provide a return before fees, costs and taxes that exceeds the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan (Standard) Index (Net Dividends) in AUD over the medium to long term. It invested in companies operating in countries such ...

Super funds back $9.6bn homegrown platform

MATTHEW WAI | THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025

... to San Francisco. Airwallex will use the funding to continue expanding its financial infrastructure into new markets like Japan, Korea, the UAE, and Latin America, and to accelerate go-to-market efforts in Europe, North America, and Southeast Asia, the ...

J.P. MAM slashes recession probability to 30%

KARREN VERGARA | TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025

... Day, its overall equity position has moved from overweight to neutral, maintaining small, long positions in Europe, UK and Japan - effectively diversifying out of US equities. US equities have also been slapped with a "flat" rating to a "slightly negative". ...

ETF industry growth streak continues, shatters net inflow records

ANDREW MCKEAN | MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025

... exchange-traded products (ETPs) by net new assets in April were the Amundi Physical Gold ETC (US$391.2 million) and the Japan Physical Gold ETF (US$355 million). Notably, gold prices rose 6% during the month as the US dollar plunged and uncertainty escalated ...

'Lunatic' tariffs can directly hit Australia: Academics

KARREN VERGARA | MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025

... of Economic Complexity database. China's exports are spread out across the rest of the world, with Hong Kong (7.6%), Japan (4.9%), Germany (4.4%) South Korea (4.3%), Vietnam (4%) and India (3.5%) making up its next-biggest export destinations. Several ...

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

ANDREW MCKEAN | THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025

Mercer's annual periodic table, which charts 17 major asset classes investment returns on an annual basis over the last decade, reveals that there's few reliable themes, except that greater risk tends to be rewarded by greater return. Equity ...

Foreign investment in Australia booms

ELIZA BAVIN | WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025

... Union with $869 billion of investments and the United Kingdom with $839 billion. Other major investors into Australia were Japan, China, Canada and the ASEAN region. In terms of where Australian investors were putting their cash, the US topped the list ...

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Future Fund cleared to manage select asset classes in-house

ANDREW MCKEAN

Future Fund chair Greg Combet said that the $300 billion sovereign wealth fund has received the green light from the government to manage a portion of its portfolio internally, speaking at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) event in Sydney yesterday.

Small industry super funds beat giants on trust, service, value

ANDREW MCKEAN

Small industry super funds lead on trust, service, and value for money, according to CoreData's annual member engagement survey.

Investor optimism premature, fund flows in firing line

KARREN VERGARA

While investor sentiment has improved since Liberation Day, geopolitical and tariff uncertainties will continue to deteriorate fund flows for asset managers, Morningstar predicts.

Geopolitical risks force family offices into alternatives, cash: Survey

KARREN VERGARA

Geopolitical uncertainties are forcing family offices out of US equities, diversifying into cash and liquid alternatives, according to BlackRock's annual Global Family Office Survey.

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