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Future Generation returns top 20%

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2026
... managers and has significantly lower exposure to Australia's largest listed companies than the benchmark, with the top 10 stocks accounting for just 16.6% of the portfolio compared with 45.3% of the index. Future Generation also maintained its philanthropic ...

Global concentration risks to reorient investors: JBWere

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2026
A rising concentration risk across global and local equities is reorienting investors to income stocks and fixed income exposure, JBWere said. JBWere head of asset allocation and portfolio management Glen Bertram noted there is really just the single ...

VanEck switches to AI-powered index

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2026
... telling Financial Standard the ETF will be Australia's first to use artificial intelligence (AI) to select international stocks, while confirming several new products will be available in the near future. VanEck confirmed local investors will access ...

Perpetual shuffles Aussie equities team amid departure

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2026
... he worked as a portfolio manager for six years. Before that, he was the lead analyst at UBS Investment analysing gaming stocks and small caps. In the funds that Aboud managed, Sean Roger will move from co-portfolio manager to portfolio manager of the ...

MySuper provides consistent returns for members: Rainmaker

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2026
... international equities (Australian dollar hedged) delivered stellar performance of 15.4%, underpinned by cyclicals, tech stocks and the AI boom," Schmidt added. "However, unhedged returns are materially lower due to the Australian dollar appreciating ...

Investors Mutual founders launch new venture

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2026
... build a well-diversified value portfolio. "Large-cap managers are virtually forced to own the major banks and resources stocks, even though many of them are now trading at record valuations," Tagliaferro continued. "Investing in the small-cap sector ...

Corruption, governance risks: The cost of doing business in emerging markets?

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2026
... opacity in shareholding structures and concerns about coordinated trading." For these reasons, MSCI froze Indonesia's stocks in early 2026. Such issues "materially limit international institutional investors' ability to assess true free float ...

Pendal shutters Global Select Fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2026
... said the fund "cannot be managed in a cost-efficient way." The fund was incepted on 30 July 2021 and held between 30-60 stocks and required a minimum investment amount of $25,000. It returned 15.9% p.a. before fees over three years while the benchmark ...

MySuper assets pursue $1.5tn Choice sector

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2026
... investment allocations, meanwhile, have more than 50% in listed equities, which is almost evenly split between global and local stocks. Australian fixed income allocations come to 10.5% and the international portion is 5.1%. Infrastructure has an 11.3% ...

Bell Asset Management launches small-caps fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2026
... compound earnings over time." The fund requires a minimum investment amount of $20,000. There will be between 30 to 70 stocks in the portfolio, with up to 10% allocated to cash, and may participate in initial public offerings. It may also invest in New ...
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