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Mercer hires chief for Kiwi business

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
... heavyweight to the role. Scott most recently served as a director of the Financial Services Council of New Zealand and carries over 20 years of experience in financial services and consulting across New Zealand and international markets. In addition ...

Soul Patts focused on 'bespoke' private sector investing

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
... "healthy" margin in the past year. "We deployed a billion dollars into new loans last year; the return on that portfolio was over 13%. We have no defaults, and we're very happy with the quality of the names we have in the portfolio," Barlow said. ...

La Trobe appoints new liquidity chief

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
La Trobe Financial (La Trobe) has named Dan Baker as the new chief liquidity officer. Baker brings over two decades of experience in liquidity, treasury, and market risk to the role. He joins La Trobe following his most recent role as the treasurer ...

Instos continue to bite on risk: State Street

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
State Street Markets' latest research indicates institutional investors are overweight on risk and appear to be content with that position. The State Street Risk Appetite Index for September remained positive, continuing a five-month streak of upbeat ...

Payday super laws introduced to parliament

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
... millions of workers. "Workers will benefit from more frequent and earlier super contributions that will grow and compound over their working lives. For the average 25-year-old worker's retirement balance, this is the equivalent of receiving an extra ...

MA Financial makes $525m acquisition

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
... asset to be acquired by MA managed fund. The fund will target a distribution yield of 8% and total return of 13% per annum over its forecast five-year term, MA Financial said. Under the deal, MA Financial will take responsibility for the full suite of ...

State Super offloads investment team to Frontier Advisors

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... Frontier. A total of 14 staff members will move from State Super to join Frontier's Sydney-based team to take the headcount over 100. "No staff from either firm will be displaced by the venture and it is expected that take up of the ICIO service ...

Controversial US policy to benefit Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... the appreciation of the Australian Dollar compared to the US," it said. EY said the change is expected to occur gradually over five years to 2030, and as a result, Australia would be able to import more goods at cheaper prices, possibly stimulating growth ...

HESTA hits $100bn in assets

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... fund to access a larger and more diverse range of high-quality investments and provide economies of scale to keep costs down over time. "Far more than a milestone, we believe this growth enables us to deliver greater value for our more than one million ...

Retail investors want true hedge fund exposure: Morningstar

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... to be bearish for both bonds and growth equities, driving their returns in the same direction and increasing correlation." Over the last 20 years, this correlation between bonds and equities often turned positive when inflation in advanced economies ...