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QIC appoints institutional distribution lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
Sydney-based Paul Raih has been promoted to head of Australia institutional distribution at Queensland's sovereign wealth fund. Reporting directly to Ravi Sriskandarajah, Paul will drive QIC's continued success in the domestic market by growing ...

DWS fined $43m for greenwashing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
... In 2021, a whistleblower - former DWS group sustainability officer Desiree Fixler - came forward with claims the asset manager was making misleading public statements about its commitment to environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. In a ...

EQT closes flagship infra fund at $37bn

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
EQT Infrastructure VI raised €21.5 billion (AU$37 billion) in total commitments, exceeding the €20 billion target. The capital raising includes the €21.3 billion in fee-generating assets under management and builds on EQT Value-Add Infrastructure's ...

Anthony Doyle quits Schroders, rejoins Pinnacle

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
... investment specialist. Until 2019, Doyle was based in the UK for a decade, working as an investment specialist for global asset manager M&G Investments and leading a team across fixed income equities, multi-assets and property. He earlier had a brief ...

Talaria taps Equity Trustees as RE for three funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
... appointed Equity Trustees as the responsible entity of its three global equity funds. The appointment covers the asset manager's dual access Talaria Global Equity Fund Complex ETF (Cboe: TLRA), the Talaria Global Equity Fund Currency Hedged Complex ETF ...

Fink takes private markets to next level

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
... opaque. "BlackRock has always had a foot in private markets. But we've been - first and foremost - a traditional asset manager. That's who we were at the start of 2024. But it's not who we are anymore," he flagged. Early in 2024, BlackRock ...

New gig for JP Morgan's AI guru

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
Sydney-based Berowne Hlavaty has been appointed global head of applied AI and data science at JP Morgan, the financial services giant. After a long career in quantitative research strategy, Hlavaty is making a switch to an internal technology role where ...

Perpetual Private awards $60m mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
Perpetual Private has added the Osmosis Resource Efficient Core Equity Fund to its multi-asset, multi-manager programme, with an initial allocation of $60 million. The Osmosis Core Equity Fund targets a better risk-adjusted return than the MSCI World ...

Underperforming managers in China could see pay halved

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
The markets regulator in China is threatening to slash the pay of fund managers by 50% if they underperform their benchmarks as part of a shake-up of the US$4.6 trillion mutual fund industry, according to a report. A Bloomberg article shows that the ...

Japanese asset manager enters Australian market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2025
Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company (SMDAM) has entered the Australian market through an exclusive partnership with Axius Partners (Axius). As one of Japan's largest asset management firms, SMDAM will initially offer its Global Equity and Japanese ...