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HSBC awarded Allianz Australia mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
... and commercial insurance providers, with approximately four million customers across the country," Wheeler said. "This mandate underlines the strength of HSBC's securities services offering and demonstrated out continued focus on the Australian market." ...

ETF Shares awards fund administration mandate

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... US shares and charge a management fee of 0.29%. Meanwhile, Apex Group Australia country head Nicholas Bradford said the mandate is timely considering the upward trend of ETFs. "We're excited to help ETF Shares enter the market by providing infrastructure ...

Norway sovereign wealth fund divests 11 Israeli companies, cuts mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
Norway's US$2 trillion sovereign wealth fund has severed ties with 11 Israeli companies and is in the process of terminating mandates with external managers based in Israel. The sovereign wealth fund's manager, Norges Bank Investment Management ...

Top Australian CIOs revealed

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2025
... update released in May, the Future Fund reported investment returns of 7.9% for the 12 months to March, exceeding its mandate target and added $17.8 billion to the value of the sovereign fund. "Over the past 12 months there were particularly strong contributions ...

WT Financial's Investco makes acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2025
... structure provides a strong platform for further targeted acquisitions to be originated and coordinated by WT Financial under mandate. Select Advice principal Eric Bohl will serve as Hubco2 chief executive. He and fellow shareholder Declan Doolan will ...

FAAA expands specialist education programs

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2025
... Palmer said. "Licensees with advisers focusing on aged care or self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) for example, often mandate further education in these fields for their advisers. "An FAAA endorsed specialisation ensures the education content is ...

Return to office mandates to harm firms, careers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... earners, the review shows. And now the impacts of what happens when employees don't return to the office despite a mandate being in place are becoming increasingly evident. The three main consequences identified are a lack of bonus payments, a poor ...

Bennelong boutique shuts up shop

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
Just two months on from shuttering its flagship fund, Touchstone Asset Management has closed its doors. As first reported by Financial Standard, the boutique wound up the Touchstone Index Unaware Fund in May. This was largely due to the low funds under ...

Octopus awarded $1bn mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
Octopus Australia has announced a partnership with APG Asset Management, a Dutch pension fund investor with assets under management exceeding $1 trillion (€590 billion). As part of the partnership, APG intends to commit over $1 billion to Octopus ...

Brighter Super awards $50m mandate

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
A new $50 million mandate will see Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) invest Brighter Super members' retirement savings back into the state's economy through high-growth, innovative businesses. The mandate will invest in businesses delivering strong ...