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ART rolls out new investment technology platform

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2026
... billion superannuation fund strengthens its investment capabilities targeting further growth. The platform, powered by BlackRock's Aladdin technology, brings portfolio management, risk analytics, trading, compliance and operations into one connected ...

RQI Investors launch emerging markets strategy

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2026
... Chang Hwan Sung has joined as senior quantitative portfolio manager, while having previously held roles at Invesco, BlackRock and Samsung Asset Management. Sam Machen joins as quantitative research developer from Jacobi, while James Sutherland joins ...

UniSuper unlocks close to $15k for members moving into retirement

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2026
... flagged when CFS announced its "largest-ever" expansion of its retirement offerings with Challenger, Generation Life, and BlackRock in May.

CareSuper hires from AustralianSuper, Rest

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2026
... Rest for over five years. Prior to that, he was managing director, head of client portfolio solutions for Australia at BlackRock after a 19-year stint at QBE. He also worked at Perpetual Investments earlier in his career. CareSuper chief investment officer ...

PE giants partner with Nvidia for $709bn AI platform

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2026
Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR have signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Nvidia to mobilise half a trillion US dollars ($709bn) of third-party capital to further accelerate the buildout of artificial intelligence ...

Funds SA appoints equities director

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2026
Funds SA has appointed Tassie Brakenridge as its new director, equities. Brakenridge joins Funds SA with more than 18 years of global investment and industry experience spanning equities, emerging markets, sustainable investing and institutional client ...

Growth assets drive recovery for super in latest quarter: Morningstar

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2026
... the chart with its Enhanced Index Growth option, returning 12.43% per year over three years. It is followed by OnePath-BlackRock Diversified ESG Growth (11.81%), Aware Super Balanced Indexed (11.78%), Hostplus Indexed Balanced (11.76%) and Vanguard Lifecycle ...

BlackRock urgers broader diversification

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2026
BlackRock is urging financial advisers to move beyond traditional approaches to diversification, arguing heightened geopolitical uncertainty, artificial intelligence (AI) and structural economic shifts require more dynamic portfolio construction. Speaking ...

Special Feature: Beyond safekeeping

BRENDAN SWIFT  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2026
... custodian. "Four or five years ago, they probably looked at each other in quite an adversarial manner," Nairn says of BlackRock and State Street. "Whereas we've seen that very much change in the last two to three years - they know in certain areas ...

Special Feature: Rewarding patient capital

PENNY PRYOR  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2026
... inflated by a number of large transactions, including the $US40 billion sale by Macquarie of Aligned Data Centres to BlackRock and a consortium of tech giants. Another seven exits valued in excess of $US10 billion each also added $US155 billion, or 22% ...
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