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Super funds defend controversial weapons holdings

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
Several major superannuation funds such as UniSuper, Aware Super, and Equip Super continue to invest in global weapons companies despite growing concerns among members, particularly as the Israel-Hamas war escalates. This includes France's Thales ...

GCI welcomes investment director

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024
... over eight years in financial services and property finance, Stone said Grajczyk brings an extensive skillset and a shared value in helping clients achieve transformative business outcomes. "Our real estate proposition requires unique perspectives to ...

Hyperion leads as top Australian shares fund manager: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2024
... managers to easing inflation and a favourable interest rate outlook for 2024, factors he deemed instrumental in besting their value-oriented counterparts. "Growth managers outperformed as the risk-on sentiment was boosted by the rapid repricing of US ...

Ex-Merricks commodities guru launches hedge fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2024
... and we all saw a great opportunity to work on something together. The timing was perfect." The fund will use a relative value strategy and aims to take advantage of pricing discrepancies between different commodities across various regions and geographies. ...

Tokenisation is the future: Northern Trust

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2024
... and product." According to Sleep, the tokenisation of assets and cash has a lot of potential to transform the fund's value chain. It can help mobilise assets, create new markets, and increase liquidity. However, the availability of digital cash will ...

Aware Super, ART hire member service heads

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024
The market was caught by surprise when two of Australia's top customer service executives changed jobs. Australian Retirement Trust head of member services Jessica Rix has landed at Aware Super in a similar role. Rix has spent two years at the country's ...

Aware Super appoints head of public market equities

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024
... the fund's public market equities strategy. "Having lived and worked overseas, I also have a deep appreciation of the value Australia's superannuation system plays in the retirement futures of all Australians, and I'm energised to play a ...

500 jobs to be axed at abrdn

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024
... in the last 18 months, heavily reducing its presence and handing its Australian equities business over to SG Hiscock. The value of abrdn's shares have more than halved since the company was created via a merger of Aberdeen Asset Management and Standard ...

Volatility an opportunity for skilled active managers: GSFM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2024
The looming threat of sporadic, extreme market volatility presents an opportunity for active managers to capitalise on fluctuating asset values, GSFM advisor Stephen Miller says. At an event yesterday, Miller described the current financial landscape ...

BWP, Newmark Property REIT set to merge

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2024
... create a $3.5 billion portfolio of geographically diversified properties, representing a 30% increase in BWP's portfolio value. It is also expected to enhance BWP's asset diversification and improve its weighted average lease expiry (WALE) profile ...