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PineBridge brings flagship lifecycle fund down under

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
... 30-50-stock portfolio that is high in active share and low in benchmark-relative risk, it said. Rob Hinchliffe, portfolio manager and the head of global sector cluster research, is managing the fund. Commenting, Hinchliffe said: "In a market characterised ...

Colonial First State hires PE head, farewells sales exec

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... replacement takes place. Carroll has worked at CFS for 10 years. Walker has held several senior management roles at the asset manager, which was bought by KKR about three years ago. The private equity group now owns 55% of CFS which it acquired from ...

Mercer names investment solutions lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... presence of Deutsche Asset Management in Australia. She was appointed vice president, research and platform relationship manager at the asset manager, and also worked as an investment specialist for the firm's global equities and alternatives business. ...

Regulators to clamp down harder on greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... Geri McMahon said while the sustainable finance taxonomies are being developed in each country, the onus on each asset manager would be to define then what sustainable means for them. "A sustainable finance taxonomy establishes definitions for green ...

GQG breaches SEC whistleblower protection laws

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... violating whistleblower protection laws via the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). The watchdog found NDAs the fund manager entered with 12 potential employees and a former one prohibited them from disclosing confidential information about GQG ...

Pitcher Partners executives launch advice firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... executive, having joined Pitcher Partners in 2018 as head of risk, compliance, and operations, as well as serving as general manager. Levi is now chief operating officer, spending the last five years as Pitcher Partners' head of operations. Meanwhile ...

Schroders launches high yield credit strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... managed by Helen Mason, reporting to head of fixed income Kellie Wood. "[She] has more than a decade's experience as a fund manager and a senior credit research analyst at Schroders and has been with the company since 2005. She is supported by a skilled ...

Acadian, Yarra among most commonly used external managers by super funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
... managers-especially when the fund's ability to negotiate ultralow fees improves the cost/benefit proposition in favour of the external manager," it said. In a sector trending inexorably toward fewer, larger super funds with increased investment insourcing ...

Platinum quashes Regal bid

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
Platinum Asset Management has rejected alternatives investment manager Regal Partners' takeover bid. Platinum's board unanimously decided that Regal's offer undervalued the company and wasn't in the best interests of shareholders. "The board of Platinum ...

HUB24 takes stake in Reach Alternatives

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
HUB24 is entering a strategic alliance with Reach Alternatives, taking a minority holding in the private equity platform. Reach Alternatives provides access to institutional-grade private equity funds, curating and structuring them so non-institutional ...