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Trump signs order to open 401(k)s to private markets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... financially secure retirement outcomes." It cited private equity, real estate and digital assets as examples of asset classes that could achieve this. More than 90 million workers participate in employer-sponsored defined contribution plans which are ...

Betashares details private markets play, signs first partner

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... cost-effective access to high quality investment solutions. We have pioneered the delivery of access to a growing range of asset classes and investment styles that have historically been the domain of institutional investors." "We're now taking the ...

Top Australian CIOs revealed

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2025
... particularly strong contributions to performance from the Alternatives, Credit, and Infrastructure & Timberland asset classes, highlighting the resilience and diversification of the portfolio," said Samild at the time. "Returns also benefited from changes ...

Geopolitics, private credit force insurers to 'shift gears': Janus Henderson

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2025
... risen, with life insurers particularly attentive to maintaining regulatory capital stability, it said. In terms of asset classes, private credit has emerged as the "standout" investment opportunity for insurers in 2025 as a diversifier. With more than ...

Former Qantas Super investment chief lands new gig

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2025
... the complexity of client objectives, driven by evolving markets, long horizons, and the need to manage multiple asset classes," Lazberger said. "Andrew's experience as an investor and his clear, long-term mindset will be invaluable in helping our clients ...

Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... environment is similar to market events of the past, Khan said, making it ripe for active risk management across asset classes. "If you believe in American exceptionalism, and that American consumers, businesses, economies are going to benefit from this ...

Australian investment in venture capital lags: SMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... entrepreneurs; simplifying performance testing and fee disclosures to cut red tape and reduce barriers to investing in new asset classes, while keeping high standards of consumer protection; and ensuring super tax concessions are better targeted to support ...

Rest boosts impact, sustainability investments

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
... strategy. Rest said the investment will allow it to access opportunities that do not necessarily fit with traditional asset classes and portfolio structures. It adds to the fund's existing impact investments, which it defines as those made in members' ...

Special feature: Shaping private markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... developing performance benchmarks and therefore valuation benchmarks for each of those different asset types or asset classes. Imagine being able to see how your infrastructure portfolio fund stacks up-not six months late, but right now. That's the ...

American Century cuts US outlook amid tariff impacts

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... its initial medium-term (three- to five-year) capital markets assumptions (CMAs) for 2025. Looking at individual asset classes, American Century said cash return "should remain ahead" of inflation, as forecasts for longer-dated bonds remains healthy. ...