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Channel Investment Management secures RE mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
Channel Investment Management has secured a responsible entity (RE) mandate from a global real estate fund manager to oversee another two strategies. CBRE Investment Management's Global Infrastructure Securities Fund and Global Property Securities ...

Research digs into HNW investment preferences

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
... in alternatives, comparing to only 9% for HNW clients with lower balances. The research also noted advisers will likely focus on finding investment platforms that can provide simple access to these assets from here on, and for investors already holding ...

Major climate group suspends operations

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
... recently, the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZAM) lost Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America. Citi said it had chosen to focus instead on its membership of Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) - a group which recently abandoned its requirement ...

Vision Super to drop fees upon merger

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
... initiatives to build on our history of strong performance. "Together, our long-term vision is building a sustainable fund with a focus on our members and their retirement outcomes." The $14 billion super fund flagged that for a period from the SFT date ...

CFS delivers 16.6% returns for growth members

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
Colonial First State (CFS) announced impressive returns for its balanced and growth equivalent funds throughout 2024. The FirstChoice Employer Super balanced option returned 13.8% in 2024, while the FirstChoice Employer Super growth option delivered ...

WA financial planning firm acquired by US insurance broker

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
Global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co has acquired Western Australia-based Wealth Management Partners (WMP), with the entire WMP team to remain under Arthur J. Gallagher's direction moving forward. Details of the transaction were not ...

Platinum AUM inches to $11bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
Platinum Asset Management grew its assets under management (AUM) in the last month of 2024 to end up with $11.1 billion. The fund manager made a net gain of $93 million during the month of December despite experiencing outflows of $289 million. Some ...

Monetary policy to underscore 2025 allocations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... interest rates have peaked. He points to property as a resilient inflation-linked asset class, underscoring the need to focus on long-term drivers like relative valuation pricing metrics, particularly inflation linked bonds because a rally in real bond ...

MetLife snaps up three investment teams from Mesirow

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... well suited to these three traditional investment strategies." Brown added that going forward, Mesirow will continue to focus on growing its alternatives capabilities and core wealth management, fiduciary solutions, and capital markets/investment banking ...

Investors should stay the course in 2025: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... investments solely to those events. Rose told Financial Standard investors should avoid side-tracking from brief distractions and focus on their goals in 2025. "We do not try to predict what is going to happen in the short-term, including election results ...