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ESG funds third-best performing asset class

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... year to January 2025, achieving a 17.7% return on a median basis, new Rainmaker Information data shows. International equities in large caps and international equities in emerging markets were the two asset classes that outperformed ESG funds at 25% ...

Woodside investors urged to sack the board over dud returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... in the best interests of the company. "Woodside has significantly and chronically underperformed its peers, the global equities market and the local equities market. Yet the company is persisting with the high-cost, high-risk, fossil fuel growth strategy ...

GQG loses top sales exec

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... Vontobel Asset Management chief investment officer and co-chief executive Rajiv Jain in 2016 as an independent boutique equities manager. Abernethy left his role as CFS's head of retail investment sales back in 2019 to lead GQG's Australia and ...

Asian family office sets up in Melbourne

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... He sees second and third-generation high-net-worth clients who want to do more with their wealth than invest in bonds, equities, and property. The focus on capital markets will enable the new firm to offer a wider range of investment options such as ...

UniSuper waters down 'volatile' environmental option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... From March 28, the option will aim to ensure that at least 50% of the weighted average reported revenue from the listed equities component of its investments is derived from environmental themes and the threshold for the inclusion of a listed company ...

Sandi Orleow joins ECP board

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... entities, private and listed companies, superannuation, and member-based organisations. These include Pengana International Equities, Sydney Financial Forum, Active Super, ACT Treasury and chairs the Australian CFA Diversity Council. "Sandi has a passion ...

Axius names executive director

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... alternative and traditional investment sectors such as credit, real estate, private equity, infrastructure, hedge funds, equities, and structured product solutions. Before working with the CBA, Filippelis was country head of the Australian investment ...

GCQ enters ETF market, expands sales team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... active ETF providing investors with access to GCQ's concentrated portfolio of high-quality companies. GCQ Global Equities Complex ETF (GCQF) will start trading on 3 March 2025. The launch of the ETF follows the appointment of a former VGI Partners ...

RQI hires research duo

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
RQI Investors, an active quant equities manager within First Sentier Investors, has strengthened its research team with two hires. Based in Sydney, Tom Marty and Alex Kiechle-Cornish will report to Ron Guido, senior quantitative portfolio manager and ...

Perennial Partners hunts new ESG expert

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... than five years in the role, Emilie O'Neill has left Perennial Partners where she served as co-head of ESG and senior equities analyst. O'Neill joined Perennial Partners in September 2019, working on the Better Future Strategy and the Better Future Fund ...