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Rest names internal global equities lead

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023
... high-conviction portfolio manager specialising in global equities. Additionally, he's been a senior portfolio manager for a North American equities fund at USS Investment Management, the UK's largest pension fund, with prior positions at F&C Investments ...

Invesco hires from Northern Trust

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2023
The fund manager's local arm has appointed a director - factor investing and multi-asset strategies, nabbing a regional lead from Northern Trust Asset Management. From next week, Scott Bennett will join Invesco Australia in the role, leaving behind ...

Future Fund exposed to dangerous Chinese investments: Opposition

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2023
... Liberation Army, involved in the oppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, and invested in sanctioned nations such as Russia, Iran, and North Korea. According to an audit conducted by opposition senator James Paterson in August, the $200 billion sovereign wealth ...

Regal Partners buys stake in Taurus Funds Management

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023
... Sydney, however, retains satellite offices in the UK, Europe, and the Cayman Islands, servicing institutional investors in North America. Taurus has a track record of investing within the resources sector and its primary investment strategies seek to ...

Alternatives to top $33tn by 2028

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023
... to 2028 is 14%, revised down from 19%, Preqin said. This is on the back of worse-than-expected growth in funds targeting North America in comparison to the 2022 report forecast. However, the region is still expected to exhibit the highest growth rate ...

Keppel private fund expands into Australia

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2023
... Kensington (currently fully leased by the University of New South Wales), and a seven-story commercial building located in North Sydney, soon to be converted to a K12 independent school campus. Tan said that the two latest assets in Sydney, as well as ...

AustralianSuper merges real assets functions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2023
... become acting head of American real assets while the fund determines the property component of the real assets strategy in North America. Additionally, AustralianSuper will now look to recruit a head of real assets for Australia. Meantime, Monica Ryu ...

Private credit boom sweeps Australia

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2023
... higher returns. This drastically changed with the rapid growth in credit issued between 2020 and mid-2022. While Europe and North America have long been the domain of private credit investors, Asia Pacific accounts for just 6% of the global market, Preqin ...

UniSuper partners to buy Tasmanian timber plantation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023
... https://www.fssustainability.com.au/new-forests-sell-carbon-credits-via-emissions-reduction-fund Forico registered a project in north-east Tasmania approved by the Clean Energy Regulator and a Carbon Abatement Contract secured at an ERF auction. The ...

Global insurers eye private markets, clean energy: BlackRock

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2023
... considered the greatest transition investment opportunity by 62% of global insurers. This sentiment is most pronounced among North American insurers at 74%, followed by those in EMEA (62%), APAC (57%), and Latin America (56%). Interestingly, market volatility ...