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High-profile stockpicker hires from WTW

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
A WTW operative has landed at high-profile stockpicker Geoff Wilson's Sydney-based fund manager which invests more than $6 billion on behalf of retail and wholesale investors. Nick Kelly has joined Wilson Asset Management as the portfolio manager ...

Vanguard fined US$106m for investors' massive tax bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
... from a rebound in the financial markets following pandemic lows. Consequently, Investor TRF retail investors who did not switch and continued to hold their fund shares in taxable accounts faced historically larger capital gains distributions and tax ...

APG to invest exclusively for ABP

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... funds BpfBouw, SPW (the pension fund for housing corporations) and the employee pension fund PPF APG - they will have to switch to another asset manager around 2030.

One in five pension funds face liquidity risks

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
Nearly one in five pension funds face liquidity risks particularly as they increase allocations to private assets, a new survey shows. The study of pension funds from the UK, US, Netherlands, Canada, and the Nordics by Ortec Finance reveals many are ...

Platinum awards mandate to Northern Trust

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... into the future." Platinum finance director Andrew Stannard said many factors played into the asset manager deciding to switch to a new servicing provider. "Northern Trust's consultative approach stood out from the start. We also felt a strong cultural ...

ASX bleeds $41bn from delistings

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... raised $2 billion (US$1.3 billion) upon its debut on December 13. On December 18, DGT finalised its acquisition of Global Switch Australia, or SYD1, the only large-scale data centre campus in Sydney's CBD connected to all major submarine cables and ...

What you read in 2024

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
... to access account balances and services. They also could not use the fund's calculators or consolidate their super, switch investments, access holdings data, upload documents, or make withdrawal requests. Further, prospective members were not able ...

Zenith hires from Preqin and Morningstar

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
Zenith Investment Partners has made two new appointments to its business development team - Jim Wang and Doug Hope. Based in Sydney, they will report to Zenith's head of sales, Glenn Boyes. Wang will join the institutional team where he will oversee ...

Trustee valuation processes 'concerning': APRA review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2024
Many superannuation trustees have been told they must improve their valuation governance practices, with APRA finding just 11 have dedicated valuation committees while others involve staff members whose remuneration is tied to asset values in the process. ...

Eyes on gaming, Chinese tech in 2025: Orbis

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024
... firm is bullish on gaming and believes its investment in Nintendo is going to pay off next year when its next console, the Switch 2, is launched. Historically, Nintendo's success has come in waves, experiencing what Marais describes as a 'boom-bust' ...