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State Street boosts digital asset access with new platform

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2026
... broaden institutional investors' access to the asset class. The new platform enables State Street to continue to develop "core products" like tokenised money markets funds (MMFs), ETFs, tokenised assets, and cash products, including tokenised deposits ...

Performance test changes not necessary: ART

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2026
... our decision making... and frankly, that's fine. The benchmarks, to us, are perfectly sensible." Parker said that, at the core of it, funds are expected to make investments based on members' best financial interests. So, any fund hoping to "hide" behind ...

Super moves: NGS Super, HESTA, Mercer

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026
NGS Super has promoted Miao Yu to portfolio manager, currency and commodities. Most recently, Yu served as a senior investment analyst at the $17 billion fund for over two years, after joining in 2023 as an investment analyst. Previously, she worked ...

Maple-Brown Abbott partners to launch global infra fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026
... committed to delivering superior returns to their clients through a deep focus on specialist investment management. We focus on core infrastructure with lower volatility, inflation protection, and income stability," he said. "Leveraging the technology ...

Mercer Investments axes managers, awards fresh mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2026
... Diversified Funds and Mercer Multi-manager Diversified Funds. Furthermore, Mercer said the new streamlined structure focuses on core strategies that aim to deliver more consistent excess performance with an emphasis on managing unrewarded risks such ...

Trump plans to ban large investors from buying homes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2026
... hard and doing the right thing... People live in homes, not corporations," he wrote. Institutions are often cited as being a core driver behind the US housing affordability crisis, buying up properties that would historically have gone to first-time ...

Apex to acquire Mercer's super admin business

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2026
... transition its stand-alone superannuation administration business aligned with its strategic objective "to focus on growing our core wealth businesses in superannuation and investments, alongside Mercer Workforce Solutions and Mercer Marsh Benefits". ...

Lazard sets up new chief investment role

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2026
... forward to partnering with our investors to reinforce the culture of curiosity and innovation that has always been at the core of Lazard's analytical approach to investing on behalf of our clients."

China's two speed economies: Which one wins?

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026
... inflation and a more supportive policy stance, suggest further upside potential," Efstathopoulos said. Efstathopoulos said core inflation has been rising since May, while service-sector inflation - from recreation to healthcare and transport - is broadening. ...

FEATURE | Recruitment: Laying foundations

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2026
... are made hastily." Kaizen Consulting notes that during integration, permanent recruitment tends to slow, especially in non-core roles, as organisations try to stabilise and absorb change. Stacking tech The biggest challenge when two funds merge? Making ...