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Pension assets climb towards $50 trillion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... alternatives 23% and cash 3%. Thinking Ahead Institute co-head Marisa Hall explained that with this growth, the ways large pension funds function internally are also shifting. "Besides strong growth in assets last year, there was a noticeable pick-up ...

American private debt fund eyes Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... Richard Levy and Brendan Carroll said on a recent visit to Sydney. Among its investors are the sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurers and the World Bank's International Finance Corporation. The firm primarily focuses on institutional investors ...

Aussie investment gurus delve into alternatives

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... briefings in Melbourne and Sydney during December 2019, and include investment professionals from superannuation funds, pension funds, investment consultants, family offices, insurers, sovereign wealth funds and financial advisory services.

UK pension fund expands offering, climate risk policy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... responsible for more than $760 million new contributions each month as it steadily joins the ranks of the UK's largest pension funds. Nest said having an FCA regulated subsidiary will help it implement more sophisticated ways of investing on behalf of ...

Insto investors confused by environmental equities

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... good idea but it's not easy to help them see what job it does or how to fit it in in terms of allocation." Most pension funds and super funds that invest with Impax, he said, assess environmental equities as a satellite to global equities. "Pension funds ...

AMP Capital boosts Asia presence after record raise

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2019
... time there was a stronger demand for it in Asia than in Australia," Keary said. He said investors in the fund are pension funds, insurance companies and some sovereign wealth funds. "That's the ultimate, from my perspective, managing money on behalf ...

Australia climbs up Mercer global pension index

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
... wealth effect - which explains increased spending as a result of rising wealth - in relation to pension assets. With pension funds holding more by way of assets, Knox said people felt more financially secure and were thus borrowing money to improve their ...

Fees down across asset classes: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2019
... several years ago to re-evaluate their spending. "Improving value for money continues to be a huge priority among the pension funds and other asset owners we work with. We have seen a big increase in demand over the last year for more granular, tailored ...

Evidence of "pay to play" in US pension consulting

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
Top staff at investment advisory firms may have used political contributions to win mandates from public pension funds in the United States until 2011, a new research paper found. Pay to Play in Investment Management, a paper published by William Beggs ...

IFM Investors boss to retire

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... extraordinary returns to millions of Australian industry super fund members, and millions more workers through their pension funds." "Brett has been a champion of the member-first ethos of industry super funds, and firmly aligned IFM Investors with the ...