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Mercer Super recruits growth lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2024
A senior J.P. Morgan sales executive and relationship manager has joined Mercer Super Trust as its growth lead. In the new role, Stuart Raynes will support the super fund's growing corporate super and clients business. "Stuart's appointment ...

Australian private capital industry surges 33%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2024
... emerged where, in a more subdued global and market environment, more capital is being committed to fewer, but more experienced, fund managers," Preqin said. Of all active Australia-based private capital investors, the proportion of family offices increased ...

CSLR kicks off, 2k await compensation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2024
The Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) today opened its doors, ready to compensate about 2000 claimants who have long waited for redress. Inaugural CSLR chief executive David Berry told a media briefing: "We look forward to supporting a number ...

Legalsuper names chief investment officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... who departed in December 2023 for a role at Koda Capital. Murray was most recently interim head of alternatives at Future Fund, a role he took on after serving as director, portfolio strategy for one year. He left Future Fund in mid-2022, becoming a ...

ASIC wins greenwashing case against Vanguard

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... investors via claims it made about certain ESG screens it applied to its Ethically Conscious Global Aggregate Bond Index Fund. On March 8, the indexing giant admitted to "engaging in conduct that was liable to mislead the public and that it had made ...

Investment managers embracing AI: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
According to a report by Mercer, nine out of 10 investment managers are either using or planning to use artificial intelligence (AI) in their investment strategies or asset class research. The report flagged that the question is no longer if but how ...

Super fund expenditure to be exposed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
APRA will publicly expose the way superannuation fund trustees are spending and investing members' funds later this year. The move comes after a consultation with the industry in which APRA sought feedback on proposals to treat most of the data it now ...

Infrastructure a foundational portfolio asset class: IFM Investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... year, making up a quarter of its alternative's portfolio and 4.2% of overall assets. Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the largest asset owner in the country and the world's largest pension fund, started investing in infrastructure a ...

AFCA flags legal uncertainty on SMSF wholesale test

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... couldn't rely on those certificates. It said because the financial service that was provided was about how a superannuation fund should invest, the correct test to apply was the SMSF holding $10 million in assets," she said. This test sits in section ...

HMC Capital acquires asset manager

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
HMC Capital has successfully acquired North American Digital Infrastructure asset manager StratCap in a deal worth $43.7 million. HMC Capital announced its intention to acquire the company in its 1H FY24 results on February 20. The transaction is expected ...