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NZ Super Fund chief investment officer departs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2024
... after it announced the appointment of a new chief executive. Chief investment officer Stephen Gilmore will leave the NZ Super Fund at the end of June 2024 to take up the role of chief investment officer at CalPERS, the largest pension plan in the United ...

Jo Townsend named chief executive of NZ Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2024
... Whineray's departure late last year. Guardians of NZ Superannuation have appointed Jo Townsend as head of the NZ$70 billion NZ Super. Townsend - chief executive of Funds SA for eight years - left the $42 billion institutional investor of public sector ...

New chair for NZ Super Fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024
... Williamson said. Meantime, New Zealand finance minister Nicola Willis said of Drayton: "During her time as chair, the NZ Super Fund continued to outperform its long-term investment benchmarks despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic ...

New Zealand sovereign wealth fund appoints acting chief

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023
... will step in as acting chief executive of the $65 billion fund, succeeding Matt Whineray. Whineray spent 15 years with NZ Super Fund; he announced his resignation earlier this year and will exit on December 8. Steed joined the Guardians in July 2021 ...

SMSF Association, CA ANZ rally against super tax changes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023
The SMSF Association and Chartered Accounts ANZ (CA ANZ) have urgently called for the rejection of a newly proposed bill that would double tax on many Australians superannuation earnings. Yesterday in Parliament, assistant treasurer Stephen Jones introduced ...

NZ Super Fund delivers 11.9%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2023
NZ Super Fund has achieved a pre-tax return of 11.9% for the full year to 30 June 2023 and increased its value by $9.7 billion to $64.5 billion. Despite the positive results, the global recovery in share prices over the year meant that its total return ...

NZ Super Fund secures stake in Euroclear

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2023
NZ Super Fund has acquired a 4.99% shareholding in Brussels-based Euroclear, a provider of essential financial markets infrastructure. With assets under custody totalling around €36 trillion and facilitating over €1 quadrillion in annual securities ...

NZ Super Fund chief executive resigns

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2023
After 15 years, NZ Super Fund chief executive Matt Whineray will step down at the end of the year. In announcing his decision, Whineray said he feels privileged to have worked with "such a talented and committed team" at the Guardians of New Zealand ...

NZ sovereign wealth fund, Northern Trust extend relationship

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2022
New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZ Super Fund) has extended its longstanding asset servicing and custody relationship with Northern Trust, following a review process earlier this year. Northern Trust will continue to provide the $58.7 billion super ...

NZ Super shifts $25bn to low carbon indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2022
The NZ Super Fund has shifted about 40% of its overall portfolio to low carbon indices, in a move that will "significantly reduce" the number of listed companies the fund owns directly. The NZ$57 billion fund began to roll over its indices to the MSCI ...
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