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American private debt fund eyes Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
A private debt manager with stellar past returns, is eyeing local superannuation funds as it starts to raise for a new fund. Victory Park Capital, headquartered in Chicago, is best known in the US for lending to financial services companies, focused ...

Preqin opens Australian office

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
The alternatives assets data juggernaut is opening an office in Sydney, as it looks to expand its local client base and build its research coverage. Preqin Pro is a software subscription platform that tracks data (such as fundraising, deals and exits) ...

New super fund targets millennials

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... super as an unimportant and ineffective asset," Kwan said in a press release. "It is not currently mandatory for Australian super funds to provide enough detail to know whether the investment of your super aligns with your core values." The release went ...

Revolution Asset Management launches second fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
Bob Sahota's private debt boutique has raised $100 million for its second fund with a Sydney superannuation fund onboard again as an investor. The Revolution Private Debt Fund II follows the boutique's inaugural fund which raised $200 million ...

PIMCO a hit with Aussie instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
PIMCO has emerged as the manager that won the most institutional money in Australia for the year ending September, according to data from more than 5000 mandates compiled by Rainmaker Information. The global manager raised $3.7 billion -- most of it ...

UK pension fund expands offering, climate risk policy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
A $16 billion UK pension fund modelled on the Australian superannuation system has received authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority to operate as an Occupational Pension Scheme. It is also intensifying efforts to tackle the risks posed by ...

What you read in 2019: Superannuation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
... individual branding, in what Equipsuper chair Andrew Fairley told Financial Standard is an attractive new model for Australian super funds as consolidation sweeps the industry. 7. Major super funds caught in fraud scandal In September it was revealed ...

The secret to super outperformance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... of responsible investment options per-fund. There are a total of 88 responsible investment options offered by Australian super funds, with just over half of all funds offering a specific responsible investment option. In 2016, about 40% of funds offered ...

Sargon opens door to trustee tech

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
Sargon has announced its full-stack trustee technology will launch as a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering for superannuation trustees in Australia and New Zealand. The financial technology and infrastructure company said its Sargon Trustee Cloud ...

Don't over-interpret OECD super fee figures

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... OECD published it's Pension Markets in Focus report at the end of October, which used APRA figures to declare Australian super members are charged just 0.5% of total assets in fees or commissions to have their retirement savings taken care of. According ...