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Industry fund awards $125 million mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... allocations to private market assets, infrastructure, overseas assets and property. It is looking to appoint an infrastructure mandate soon. The Dimensional domestic equities mandate builds on an existing relationship: Christian Super funded a passive ...

Bennelong boutique scores first insto mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
A Bennelong boutique investing in listed real estate has won its first institutional allocation from a specialist insurer. Quay Global Investors won an undisclosed amount from Avant Mutual Group, as the latter switched managers and increased allocation ...

Evidence of "pay to play" in US pension consulting

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
Top staff at investment advisory firms may have used political contributions to win mandates from public pension funds in the United States until 2011, a new research paper found. Pay to Play in Investment Management, a paper published by William Beggs ...

Boutique wins industry fund mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
A Sydney boutique has won an $89 million mandate from an industry superannuation fund as it shuffles its manager lineup. Christian Super chose Ethical Partners, run by Perpetual Investments' former deputy head of equities Nathan Parkin, as it swapped ...

Crunch time for boutique funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... mandates and ditching underperforming managers. "Think of a large super fund like AustralianSuper, if they wanted to give a mandate it could well be around $1 to $2 billion and something of that scale could affect the stability of a small investment ...

CFS awards Asian equities mandate

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
Colonial First State has awarded a mandate to a global asset manager for its Asian equities strategy. Robeco has won the mandate for an undisclosed amount to manage CFS's high-conviction, unconstrained, Asian equities mandate that looks to integrate ...

IFM Investors boss to retire

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
Brett Himbury, the chief executive of the $148 billion industry-super-owned fund manager, is retiring after a decade in the role in a surprise announcement made this morning. Himbury will retire from executive roles effective December 2020. IFM Investors ...

AllianceBernstein wins industry fund mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
An $11 billion industry fund will become the first super fund to invest in a low-carbon portfolio designed by AllianceBernstein. NGS Super has invested $170 million in AllianceBernstein's Managed Volatility Equities Fund Green strategy, known as ...

ASIC prepares to be primary super conduct regulator

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2019
... commitment to enforcement. "This update, outlining as it does the progress in pursuit of ASIC's renewed enforcement mandate, should indicate the sense of urgency and significance that the ASIC Commissioners and staff are bringing to the task," he ...

Global manager wins Zurich mandate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2019
Zurich Australia's investment arm has awarded a mandate to a $1.2 trillion global manager. Zurich Investment Management has allocated an undisclosed amount to Insight Investment's Diversified Inflation Plus Fund for its diversified strategies - including ...