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Treasury mandates APRA consider climate risks in duties

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2023
Treasury has released an updated statement of expectations for APRA which includes the adoption of climate reporting standards by super funds, banks and insurers. "For the first time, the government is explicit in requiring the regulator to consider ...

HNW population sees biggest decline in decade

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
The global high-net-worth (HNW) population dropped by 3.3% to 21.7 million in 2022, while the value of its wealth decreased by 3.6% to $124.3 trillion, according to Capgemini's latest World Wealth Report. This drop, stated by the report, is the steepest ...

Family offices look to infrastructure for alpha

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
Family offices are increasingly allocating to infrastructure and shunning more risky alternatives such as venture capital and hedge funds, a new BlackRock report shows. Infrastructure will be a pivotal alpha-generating strategy for family offices this ...

Italian private credit fund brings unique offering down under

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2023
Muzinich and Co is rolling out its MLoan fund to Australian investors, expected to be available in July. MLoan, which replicates Muzinich's parallel lending strategy launched in 2018, invests predominately in private European senior secured, floating ...

MA Financial establishes Singapore office

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023
MA Financial is increasing its footprint in Asia, soon opening the doors to a Singapore office in a bid to attract more ultra-high-net-worth and family office clients. Speaking with Financial Standard, MA Financial head of asset management Andrew Martin ...

Could the anti-woke movement come to Australia?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
At a recent conference, industry leaders delivered a stark warning to Australian companies and government to ensure that workers are not left behind in a just transition to net zero - or risk the kind of political polarisation and populism that has ...

UniSuper spends $1bn on European mobile towers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2023
UniSuper has made its first direct infrastructure investment in Europe, securing a 5% stake in mobile towers business, Vantage Towers. Vantage Towers operates 83,000 sites across 10 European markets, including Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Vodafone ...

AustralianSuper hires investment lead in Europe

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2023
... joined Coutts to lead the bank's asset allocation strategy. There, he built a team to oversee £35 billion of sterling, euro and dollar multi-asset portfolios for Coutts UK and other banks. In 2012, Astorri joined Oxford Economics and held the title ...

Economic stimulus unlikely in budget: Podcast

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2023
While the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is focused on cooling inflation, it's unlikely the May budget will look to boost the economy, Commonwealth Bank's Gareth Aird tells Financial Standard. Some were stumped this week after the RBA sent ...

Liontrust, GAM to create $100bn fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2023
Liontrust Asset Management will acquire Zurich-based GAM to create a nearly $100 billion (£53bn) entity. GAM, which has about $39.3 billion (£20.9bn) in assets under management and is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, said that it is in favour of ...