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Super moves: QIC, VFMC, ESSSuper, Aware Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
Vivian Xu has joined Victorian Fund Management Corporation to work on quant strategies across global markets. Xu arrived from Frontier Advisers, where she was promoted to the new quantitative research consultant within the capital markets and asset ...

Activist fund manager promotes three staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
Wilson Asset Management has promoted three staffers following the launch of two new investment companies this year - an income style product and a fund that backs companies run by founders. William Liu, Anna Milne, and Shaun Weick have taken on new ...

Australian private capital sector totals $139bn: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
Total Australia-focused assets under management (AUM) remained steady at $139 billion in 2024, with private equity, venture capital (VC), and private credit funds accounting for nearly half at $65 billion, according to the Australian Private Capital ...

Inflation figures point to May rate cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2025
... be in mid-May. While we agree this is the most likely outcome, we don't believe it is strictly necessary based on current macro conditions, including the tight labour market, resilient retail sales and rebound in house prices," Chesler said. "We would ...

MSCI, Moody's launch private credit risk tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2025
... 14,000 underlying companies. The solution will also produce early warning signals that flag potential credit deterioration, macro-adjusted PDs incorporating both climate and economic factors, and loss given defaults at the facility level. "As the private ...

ECCM recruits operating chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... Sydney-based systematic fund manager specialising in quantitative trading strategies. Havryliv developed the firm's macro trading strategies after working at Citii, Shell Cove Capital Management and JBWere. The firm's flagship strategy, the ECCM ...

Nearly $9bn leaves Perpetual

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
... performance was robust with 62% of strategies outperforming over three years. That said, we are mindful of the evolving macro-economic environment post period end, and in particular, the impact of these external conditions on sentiment towards equities ...

Northern Trust survey reveals what's testing asset owners

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
Northern Trust's inaugural global study of 180 asset owners has mapped the pressures, both internal and external, they expect to face in the coming year. The study canvassed responses from senior leaders from pension funds, multi-managers, outsourced ...

Market turmoil hits portfolios

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
... add as much as 1.4% to inflation. "The combination of slowing growth and rising inflation creates an increasingly uneasy macro environment - one that bears some resemblance to stagflationary conditions, even if it doesn't fully meet the definition. ...

Magellan names infrastructure co-leads

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
... investment. In addition to being co-head of the team, he is vice-chair of Magellan's investment committee and a member of the macro committee. He joined Magellan in 2016 in the infrastructure, transport and industrials team, looking after company ...