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UK government to establish national wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
Delivering on a key election promise, the newly installed UK government will launch a National Wealth Fund in the coming days to ramp up private sector investment in infrastructure projects. Announced overnight, the UK Infrastructure Bank and the British ...

Advisers encouraged to embrace AI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
The Investment Trends Adviser Technology Needs Report found financial advisers are showing a strong demand for better technology integration as they look to consolidate their tech stacks. Interestingly, the survey found the adoption of artificial intelligence ...

Investment veterans take on new roles

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
A former chief investment officer of Zurich Insurance has a new regional lead role, while an ex-TCorp strategy head took on a chief investment officer position. Michael Vos has been appointed head of investments for Asia Pacific. The investment professional ...

Committee calls for 'sick agency' ASIC to be split in half

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
The Senate committee tasked with assessing the capabilities of ASIC says the government should recognise the regulator has "comprehensively failed to fulfil its regulatory remit", calling for a complete overhaul of its structure, powers and how it's ...

GigSuper goes into liquidation

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
... operations collapsed in 2022. In late 2021, GigSuper went into voluntary administration and appointed DW Advisory with the task of helping the troubled super fund. GigSuper had less than 200 members and $2.8 million in assets. Diversa was the trustee ...

PGIM expands APAC team with local hire

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2024
PGIM has added a former MLC Asset Management executive to its private alternatives team in the Asia Pacific. The US$1.3 trillion asset management business of Prudential Financial has appointed Dan Greyling as vice president - APAC business development ...

Coller Capital hires former J.P. MAM executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2024
A former J.P. Morgan Asset Management executive has been appointed the lead of Coller Capital's private wealth distribution unit for Australia and New Zealand. David Hallifax, the former head of Australia funds at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, assumes ...

Systematic investing in fixed income: Critical success factors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024
... anomalies and inconsistencies), extensive and have a very long history. Compiling those data is a laborious, research-intensive task. It involves amassing data that extend across a wide range of bond metrics, include point-in-time analytics for companies' ...

QIC beefs up energy team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024
QIC Infrastructure's specialist energy and utilities practice has appointed three new senior executives to originate new investment opportunities. Paul Maguire, Richard Van Breda and Mark Irwin have taken up senior positions within a business that ...

TCorp moves to new OneFund structure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2024
As previously flagged, the New South Wales government is moving forward with plans to consolidate several separate investment funds managed by TCorp. In September last year, the state government announced it was reviewing the way NSW's investment funds ...