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Benchmark-clinging passive investors risk meagre returns: Perpetual

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
Perpetual head of investment strategy Matt Sherwood has warned that passive investors banking on a repeat of the past 15 years of very strong global equity returns may be sleepwalking into a decade of disappointment. Sherwood said the past decade of ...

NZ Super appoints inaugural chief operating officer

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... between December 2023 and April 2024. Before joining the Guardians, Steed had a 25-year career in financial services and banking, including various executive and general management roles with AMP, ANZ and ASB Bank. NZ Super chief executive Jo Townsend ...

Aware Super appoints UK private equity lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... years' experience working on global energy and infrastructure transactions through roles in investments, investment banking and consulting. Aware Super noted that his experience covers a broad range of infrastructure sectors and business maturities ...

The top-performing (and worst) asset classes of the past year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... equities, unaffected by currency fluctuations, pocketed an 11% return, catapulted forward by strong performance in the banking sector. More defensive asset classes, meanwhile, had a "steady pace," last year, Liem said. Fixed interest markets mounted ...

MA Financial partners to invest $2.6bn in middle market loans

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... establish a differentiated platform focused on the US middle market. MA Financial Group, Monroe Capital and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) will invest up to US$1.7 billion (AU$2.6 billion) in senior secured loans to US middle market borrowers. ...

First Sentier Investors names chief financial officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... strategy officer, effective late May. Conn will be based in Sydney and brings 25 years' experience of finance and investment banking to the role. Conn joins First Sentier Investors from Super Retail Group, where he served as the interim general manager ...

Vado Private announces senior hire

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
... distribution of its investment products to investors. Zukerman has more than 25 years' commercial lending and corporate banking experience. He joins from Carson Capital Holdings, where he was the director of capital markets for four years, specialising ...

BNP Paribas names chief for Australia, NZ

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2025
... Australia and New Zealand, replacing Karine Delvallée. In his new role, Parrot leads a team that delivers global markets and banking, and securities services solutions and asset management offerings to corporate and institutional clients. Parrot has ...

Acenda forms innovation function to create new insurance propositions

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2025
... by Lynton Pipkorn, who spent over a decade at Suncorp, including in roles such as group innovation manager across its banking, wealth, life, and general insurance businesses. Pipkorn has also recently held roles at non-bank lender OSQO as chief product ...

Private capital, active ETFs to continue shake up of financial services: Deloitte

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
... stablecoins and accelerate banks' adoption of stablecoin-based payment solutions," Deloitte said. Last month, the US Senate Banking Committee passed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act of 2025 or GENIUS Act, which ...