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Mergers push member positivity

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
The recent merger activity in the superannuation sector is received positively by members but engagement is still underwhelming, new research shows. The latest Investment Trends Super Member Engagement Report showed nearly a third of members see merging ...

BlackRock rejigs Aussie shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
BlackRock is changing the name and fees for the BlackRock Concentrated Industrial Shares strategy. Effective June 1, the fund was renamed to BlackRock High Conviction Australian Equity Fund. The strategy has about $700 million in total assets, of which ...

IFM Investors named in class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
IFM Investors has been named in a class action regarding the Colonial Pipeline, which the industry fund investment house acquired in 2007 as part of a consortium. The class action was filed in the United States District Court in the Northern District ...

Principal Real Estate wins SMA mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
BT Investment Solutions selected Principal Real Estate Investors as the underlying active manager for its Global Property MPS Fund. The fund is structured as a separately managed account has currently over $1 billion of funds under management. It has ...

Lessons from GPIF: Mizuno

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
The former chief investment officer of the world's largest pension fund is imploring asset owners to take climate policy matters into their own hands if their governments are unwilling to do so. Speaking at the Morningstar Investment Conference, United ...

Investors move to thematic funds

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
Assets in thematic funds in Australia have grown exponentially in the last year after showing stellar results through the pandemic but performance over the long term is lacklustre, new research shows. Morningstar's latest Global Thematic Funds Landscape ...

Future Fund to hire 70 for investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
The sovereign wealth fund is looking to add 70 people to its investment team, with the specific skill sets of identifying good external managers. Appearing at senate hearings yesterday Future Fund chief executive Raphael Arndt and chief investment officer ...

UniSuper names next chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
The $95 billion superannuation fund has picked an external candidate to replace outgoing chief executive Kevin O'Sullivan. Peter Chun will replace O'Sullivan, who earlier this year announced his retirement after eight years in the role. Chun ...

Magellan retirement product nears launch

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
Magellan's retirement income product FuturePay will launch on June 1, the company said in this morning's ASX filings. Magellan Financial Group has been working on its retirement product since at least 2017. It has now scheduled a June 1 briefing ...

MLC appoints co-head of private equity

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
MLC Asset Management has appointed a new co-head of private equity, to work alongside New York based Marek Herchel. Kristian Zimmermann was most recently a senior director and head of investment review team at Temasek in Singapore. Prior to this, he ...