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Future Fund posts 6% return

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2023
... Raphael Arndt saying markets are under-pricing economic and geopolitical risks. The total funds now invested by the Future Fund stand at $256.2 billion, inclusive of the $60 billion first committed by government in 2006. Future Fund chair Peter Costello ...

LGT Crestone hires from Future Fund

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2023
... specialist. Tan's recruitment has boosted LGT Crestone's in-house investment team to 22. He joins from the Future Fund where he spent the past seven years as a strategist in the economics and capital markets team. He was a key member of the multi-disciplinary ...

Magellan reverts to old leadership model

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2023
... lead Magellan's investment function." George assumed the role of chief executive on 19 July 2022, hailing from the Future Fund where he was the deputy chief investment officer for public markets. Three months later, he took on additional duties as chief ...

Liquidate $250bn Future Fund, says think tank

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2023
Given Australia's economic status, the government has been urged to liquidate the $250 billion Future Fund and pay down its $896 billion debt. According to a paper published by the Centre For Independent Studies, penned by Dimitri Burshtein, the ...

Future Fund finds new chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023
The Future Fund's search for a chief investment officer is over, having promoted a long-tenured investment veteran. Most recently serving as deputy chief investment officer, Ben Samild has been promoted. He assumes chief investment officer responsibilities ...

Aware Super, Challenger partner for DB solution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2023
Challenger will provide Aware Super with a $619 million group lifetime annuity policy to de-risk some of its lifetime pension liabilities. Challenger was selected by the fund, saying it is well placed to meet the needs of Aware Super's defined benefit ...

Government pledges $2bn to fast-track social housing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2023
... homes that Australia needs. "We could do even more if the Senate stopped blocking our $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund - the single biggest investment in social and affordable rental housing by a federal government in more than a decade." Of ...

King's birthday honours for industry executives

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2023
... adviser has been with Tupicoffs for more than 20 years. In the member (AM) general division, QBE chair Yasmin Allen and Future Fund member board of guardians Patricia Cross were both recognised for their substantial service to business and finance. Other ...

Future Fund adds to investment team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023
Future Fund has strengthened its investment team with the hire of Toby McMillan as director of unlisted property. McMillan arrives from the $60 billion quasi-sovereign wealth fund Victorian Funds Management Corporation. McMillan worked at VFMC for more ...

Praemium names chief technology officer

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2023
... role of chief information officer at the University of Technology in Sydney. Prior to that he spent over two years at Future Fund as its chief technology officer and 15 years at Aberdeen Asset Managers in the United Kingdom as its global head of business ...