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Private equity still hot: State Street

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2023
Private equity will remain the top alternative asset class for new investment over the next two to three years, according to State Street's latest global survey. The survey, commissioned by State Street in Q4 of last year, surveyed 480 institutional ...

Rest appoints head of property

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2023
Rest has confirmed the appointment of Andrew Bambrook as head of property. Bambrook joins the $66 billion fund from TelstraSuper where he headed up the real assets team for six years. Reporting to Simon Esposito, Rest's deputy chief investment officer ...

HSBC eyes bigger slice of super pie

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2023
HSBC Australia has partnered with the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) as it looks to expand its services in the Australian superannuation sector. The new partnership will see HSBC and AIST collaborate to help inform the latter's ...

More alpha gains through ops

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2022
Growth in fund complexity and managing assets in-house has triggered intensive efforts by pension funds to beef up their operational and support functions. JANA principal consultant and head of operational consulting, Jo Leaper, says there is a growing ...

Global pension report reveals flight to safety

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2022
As is typical in volatile and uncertain times, a flight to safety is apparent. Global public funds will be net sellers of public equity and some higher-yielding fixed-income assets. They will retreat to safe-haven currencies, with dollar holdings rising ...

Six local funds in world's top 100: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022
There are six Australian entities in the top 100 asset owners by size, according to Willis Towers Watson's Thinking Ahead Institute. According to new research, total assets held by the globe's 100 largest owners is up 9% since the end of 2021 to US$26 ...

Altis Property Partners secures $600m

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022
The Australian real estate investment manager secured equity commitments of $600 million from global investors for its real estate strategies. The capital secured across two Altis funds, AREEP4 and AIF1, will go toward developing local core real estate ...

BlackRock expands proxy voting to retail investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2022
BlackRock will allow individual investors in select mutual funds in the UK to engage in proxy voting via its technology platform Voting Choice. BlackRock chair and chief executive Larry Fink said it's clear investors don't want to sit on the ...

Sustainable investment now mainstream: Survey

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2022
... management Sylvain Chateau said that once again, the survey emphasises the importance of sustainable investment for asset owner strategies and sustainable investing is now truly mainstream around the globe. "It's also interesting to see that in sustainable ...

NZ Super shifts $25bn to low carbon indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2022
The NZ Super Fund has shifted about 40% of its overall portfolio to low carbon indices, in a move that will "significantly reduce" the number of listed companies the fund owns directly. The NZ$57 billion fund began to roll over its indices to the MSCI ...