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Australia joining global retirement focus: Challenger

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016
... up of foreign-owned institutions. Today it stands at 41% with most investors coming from the UK, wider Europe and North America. Benari said companies are leveraging a super system that will shift into guaranteed income streams. He added this shift was ...

AMP Capital acquires largest underground parking system in the US

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
AMP Capital has announced it has acquired the largest underground parking system in the US in partnership with Northleaf Capital Partners. The Chicago Downtown Public Parking System (Millennium Garages) has 9,176 parking spaces in four underground garages ...

KKR reveals Australian head

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
Global investment firm KKR has named its Australian head to will commence the role in July 2016. Scott Bookmyer, currently member and chief operating officer for KKR Asia, will now also take direct responsibility for KKR Australia. Bookmyer will relocate ...

Tribeca announces new appointment

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... natural resources fund. He will report to managing director David Aylward. Evans' most recent appointment was at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he was head of equities trading and financing. For the past 15 years his experience has included managing ...

Investors must look past market noise: AXA IM

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
Investors must rethink their investment approach and look to the long term if they wish to achieve their target returns, according AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM). Speaking at a media briefing in Sydney, AXA IM identified a number of evolutionary trends ...

IFM Investors sells stake in Indiana Toll Road

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... investment that will run alongside the IFM Investors Global Infrastructure Fund. IFM Investors' head of infrastructure North America, Julio Garcia, said the firm is delighted to partner with CalPERS and Allstate "in this critical piece of US transportation ...

IFM Investors hires chief economist

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... on financial markets, risk, investment and quantitative research. Joiner was most recently chief economist for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Australia, where he worked closely with the Australian and global equities, fixed income and FX teams. Prior ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... expectations of the Fed - reverses its lowered interest rate trajectory. It might be a long wait given recent eco stats out of America. The advanced estimate of US first quarter GDP confirmed the slowing momentum earlier indicated by earlier stats on ...

Instos turn to smart beta in low-return world: SSGA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
Institutional investors worldwide are turning to objective and factor-based investment approaches, such as smart beta, to meet their investment goals given the global low interest rate environment. This is one of the findings of State Street Global ...

Pillar enters blockchain

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
Superannuation services giant Pillar Administration has leapt in to blockchain with a view to address many of the technology inefficiencies in the $2 trillion super industry. At an internal super summit in Wollongong yesterday, Pillar chief executive ...