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Aware Super adds infrastructure portfolio manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2022
... chief investment officer Damien Webb welcomed the new recruit to the team. "His extensive experience in infrastructure investment will be a great addition to our growing team, led by Mark Hector, particularly at a time where global investment markets ...

MSC Trustees appointed by Alceon

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2022
Alceon Group has selected MSC Trustees to serve as trustee and responsible entity for two of its funds. The mandate is for the Alceon Australian Property Fund and Alceon Debt Income Fund. In taking on the mandate, MSC Trustees will replace Certane Group's ...

Global pension fund snaps up telco stake

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2022
... managing a portfolio of infrastructure investments in Australia and New Zealand. This latest Australian infrastructure investment aside, in 2021 Ontario Teachers' acquired all the securities of Spark Infrastructure for approximately $5.2 billion. ...

Review of YFYS receives mixed response

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
The government's Treasury review into the operation of the Your Future, Your Super (YFYS) laws and MySuper performance tests has had a mixed reception. Assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones said the government is ...

Performance test expansion paused as government announces review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
Treasury has halted the extension of the Your Future, Your Super (YFYS) performance test beyond MySuper products for 12 months while conducting a review of the laws. Minister for financial services Stephen Jones announced that the review will commence ...

Super's defense against economic volatility

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2022
At the ASFA Conference, former deputy prime minister and Cbus chair Wayne Swan called superannuation a great triumph of social-democratic policy as it's become a major source of social stability. The world has become a more dangerous place, its ...

Key investor trends unveiled in latest IFM report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2022
... intermittency issues. Whether it be by 2030, 2050 or today, it will require unprecedented levels of new infrastructure investment to achieve this net zero economy. "As major investors of pension capital, we see a number of emerging investment opportunities ...

Aussie instos commit $50bn to UK projects

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2022
AustralianSuper and IFM Investors are among several local institutions that will splash their cash on clean energy, technology, and infrastructure projects in the UK in the coming years. Overnight the UK government announced major investments from AustralianSuper ...

Federal Budget delivers nothing on climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2022
... that the fuel excise cut could have been "perhaps better spent" on supporting electric vehicles and EV infrastructure investment as well as public and active transport initiatives. Oliver Wyman head of climate and sustainability platform in Australia ...

Government flags $17.9bn infrastructure spend

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... infrastructure spend across the country. The new announcements will see the government's rolling 10-year infrastructure investment pipeline will increase from $110 billion to over $120 billion, a new record. Key commitments funded in the 2022-2023 ...