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Benchmark-clinging passive investors risk meagre returns: Perpetual

ANDREW MCKEAN | TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025

Perpetual head of investment strategy Matt Sherwood has warned that passive investors banking on a repeat of the past 15 years of very strong global equity returns may be sleepwalking into a decade of disappointment. Sherwood said the past decade of ...

Perpetual, Pendal combine multi-asset capabilities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024

... asset strategies team and be led by current head of multi asset at Perpetual, Michael O'Dea. Also on the team is Matt Sherwood, David Hudson, Geoff Ryan, Russell Turner, Rema Elias, Alan Polley, Rita Bodrina and Ken Phang. As a result of the decision ...

Markets slump as US jobless claims hit 30m

ALLY SELBY | FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020

... after US GDP slumped by 4.8% in the first quarter of the year. Perpetual multi-asset head of investment strategy Matt Sherwood said the poor data had resulted in heavy losses around the world overnight. "The MSCI World Index declined by -0.9% overnight ...

Wall Street surges as Sanders drops out, Wuhan reopens

ALLY SELBY | THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020

... 1.75% in its last day of trading before the Easter long weekend. Perpetual multi asset head of investment strategy Matt Sherwood said markets had been completely unpredictable. "We feel sometimes in these markets that we are in a Seinfeld skit and in ...

Wall Street rally runs out of steam

ALLY SELBY | WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020

... with the daily death toll in Italy, Spain and France decreasing. Perpetual multi asset head of investment strategy Matt Sherwood said investors were ignoring the elephant in the room. "It may be a fair conclusion that despite the solid bounce in regional ...

Instos demanding multi-asset alternative strategies

MARK SMITH | THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015

... today and the 10 year bond yield from 4.5% to 1.5%," said Perpetual's head of investment strategy, multi assets, Matt Sherwood. "In this environment investors need to move away from the benchmark and focus on investment opportunities. This is the very ...

Reasons to cheer amid gloomy predictions

LAURA MILLAN | TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015

... Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake told Financial Standard. Perpetual head of investment market research Matt Sherwood said that "companies exposed to housing and infrastructure operating in the east will do well." But he added that the sector's ...

Oil price spike won't spoil Aussie equity party

MARK SMITH | MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013

... worry about the sustainability of the global economy, Perpetual Investment's head of investment market research, Matt Sherwood, says Australian businesses should be more insulated. Rainmaker chief economist Benjamin Ong this morning raised concerns that ...

Aus investors over-reacting on Euro fears

MELANIE TIMBRELL | THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012

... honest. "Our clients are worrying about Europe, like everyone else. Whether they should be is another question." Matt Sherwood, head of investment market research at Perpetual Investments said any impact on the Australian economy would most likely be ...

Aus equities forecast to return 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MATT WOODINGTON | MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011

... see a lot of special dividends and share buybacks - and I allowed for that in my thoughts for the share markets." Matt Sherwood, head of investment market research at Perpetual, agrees that the market is heading for an upswing but said for the ASX200 ...

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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

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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

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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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