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Perennial Partners takes over Australian Unity fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2024
... will also step down as trustee of the fund, with Perennial taking over as trustee. The fund's managers, Victor Windeyer and Sam Walker, will move to Perennial and maintain their roles managing the Future of Healthcare Fund portfolio, adhering to its ...

Future Group changes fees for Guild members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2024
GuildSuper and GuildPension members will see some changes to the fees they pay from this month. In November last year, Future Group acquired GuildSuper, including Child Care Super, adding about $2.77 billion in funds under management and some 99,000 ...

UniSuper outage continues, no cause identified

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
The super fund plans to begin restoring services later this week, though chief executive Peter Chun has told members the root cause of the outage remains unknown. UniSuper's systems, including its app, have been down for about a week now, with members ...

Dexus completes $300m raising

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
Dexus announced it has successfully raised more than $300 million for a first close of its second dedicated real estate opportunity fund, putting it on track to raise up to $1 billion in equity. The Dexus Real Estate Partnership 2 (DREP2) fund is the ...

Asset managers prioritising product quality: Northern Trust

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2024
Investment managers are focused on the quality and accuracy of their products to enhance the investor experience and growing their distribution in the next two years, according to a recent survey of 300 global asset management firms conducted by WBR ...

Men, women in same occupation drive pay gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2024
A whopping 80% of the gender pay gap can be attributed to women being paid less than men within the same occupation, a new economic analysis shows. After analysing tax data, economic research organisation E61 Institute compared men and women of similar ...

Super for housing 'economically reckless': SMC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
The Super Members Council (SMC) has warned that encouraging young Australians to use their superannuation for a house deposit could dramatically drive-up house prices and deplete their retirement savings. "We all desperately want more Australians to ...

Treasury shakes up foreign investing framework

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
Treasury is promising to make Australia a better investment hub for foreigners as it lays out comprehensive reforms to make the system "stronger, more streamlined, and more transparent". Treasurer Jim Chalmers today released an updated foreign investment ...

Antipodes acquires boutique manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2024
Antipodes has acquired a fund manager specialising in Asian equity and fixed income strategies that has about $170 million in assets under management. Premium Asia Funds Management is now part of Antipodes' stable, transferring three strategies ...

Future Fund posts 10.1% annual return, surpassing benchmark

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2024
The Future Fund has reported a one-year return of 10.1%, exceeding its target benchmark of 7.6%, as its total assets under management reached a record $223.4 billion. So far, this financial year, the sovereign wealth fund has posted an 8.3% return ...