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HESTA names head of investment execution

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024
... appointment reflects the importance of enhancing HESTA's investment operating platform for current and future multi-asset class investment management activities and ultimately delivering positive outcomes for members. "Sophie's leadership and ...

Bitcoin hits fresh high as investors await halving event

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024
... legitimate investment option through the ETF listings, the wider crypto market is gaining more interest as an emerging asset class as a whole." Investors are also eagerly awaiting the upcoming halving event, expected in April this year. The halving is ...

Hamilton Lane debunks private market myths

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2024
... Hamilton Lane's 2024 Market Overview report has offered a counter narrative to perceptions about the private market asset class. "Valuations are inaccurate: we can't tell if this is a real one today or just a bad hangover from 2022's party-crashing histrionics. ...

Perpetual adds director, institutional business

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2024
High-profile investment executive Kate Hillyar has joined Perpetual Asset Management's institutional business team. Hillyar arrives from alternative asset manager HMC Capital, where she worked for 18 months as a director of institutional capital. ...

FICAP RockStar slated for July

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2024
... financial services industry professionals. For the first time, the ultimate winner of the event will be gifted a business class ticket to Auckland, New Zealand to take part in a similar, televised event. FICAP chair Marnie McLaren said: "We couldn't ...

Alex Dunnin bids farewell to Rainmaker

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
After 26 years, Rainmaker Information's co-founder and Financial Standard 's resident superannuation guru is going back to school - kind of. Today marks Rainmaker executive director, research Alex Dunnin's final day with the business, retiring from ...

Baby boomers turn to local private debt: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2024
... Analytics latest paper, titled Australian Debt Megatrends, stated that local private debt is the perfect retirement-age asset class due to its excellent track record in downside protection. The asset class is also said to pay monthly or quarterly income ...

AustralianSuper to deploy £8 billion in the UK

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024
AustralianSuper is set to deploy more than £8 billion of new capital into the UK, projecting its investment portfolio to surpass £18 billion by 2030. The superannuation giant plans to channel capital into large-scale, long-term investment opportunities ...

Family offices still love hedge funds: Preqin

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024
The number of family office investors allocating to hedge funds increased by 10% from 2022 to 2023, and has doubled since 2015, according to new research by Preqin. The Preqin Fundraising from Family Offices report stated that family offices across ...

Low investor demand sees equities funds wound up

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... market equities have been challenging for several years which has impacted investor sentiment and appetite for the asset class," Equity Trustees, again as RE, said. "Given this, we do not expect any further growth in the fund in the short to medium term ...