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Sue Brake joins NZ Super, Lisa Gray departs VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
Two of Australia's former top executives at the forefront of change have become highly influential figures on sovereign wealth fund boards. Sue Brake, former Future Fund investment chief and adviser to Singapore's central bank has chosen a second ...

Ventura names new investment chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... officer of Ventura Funds Management, the dealer group's asset management arm. As investment chief, Stojanovski will focus primarily on the investment management of the iQ Portfolios and the new IconiQ Super Wrap and Investment platform. The iQ Portfolios ...

Government bolsters funding for payday super reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... preparation for retirement. It would also encourage people to engage more regularly with their retirement savings, she added. "Our focus is on making sure that these changes translate into meaningful improvements for workers' futures, providing the comfortable ...

Schroders shutters local private debt arm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... team have delivered strong investment outcomes for our clients, this is an increasingly competitive space. As we look to focus our business and build scale globally, we believe the efforts of our private assets team are better directed towards other ...

Rest appoints two general managers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
Rest has appointed two general managers to propel its strategic focus on workplace culture and employee experience. Amy Mathews, who was formerly head of organisational development at Aware Super for eight years, has been appointed general manager of ...

Macquarie AM puts money in Aussie real estate investment firm

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... opportunistic fund series, following the Asia-Pacific opportunistic real estate partnership (MREP Asia 1). The fund has a strong focus on pension and sovereign wealth funds across Australia, Canada and the Middle East and targets "strong structural macroeconomic ...

TCorp returns 7%, AUM hits $110bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
... government. TCorp chief executive David Deverall said the "strong performance was not a one off". "It was driven by our sharp focus on building resilience into our portfolios to withstand a range of scenarios, a key tenet of our investment approach and ...

Treasury flags $23bn in CGT benefits

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
... Rent Tax that will see the offshore LNG industry pay more tax, sooner, and improving tax compliance," Chalmers said. "The focus for us is we have some unfinished business when it comes to some of the tax measures that we've already announced, multinationals ...

AI can improve super fund value chain: CFA Institute

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
Superannuation funds and the broader global pension system can benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) in every corner of the value chain to ultimately provide efficient, personalised services to members, new research from the CFA Institute found. ...

Chalmers defends budget deficits in MYEFO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
... has struck the right balance between stimulating the economy and keeping inflation at bay. "We have maintained a primary focus on inflation and the cost-of-living without ignoring out broader responsibilities," he said. "We need to remember, in the international ...