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Irish sovereign wealth fund mandates four managers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2026
... funds are invested in a prudent and effective manner to deliver on their legislative mandates." The FIF benchmark is 80% equities and 20% fixed income. Over time, this will become 70% public equities, 10% publicly quoted fixed income, 10% real assets ...

Institutional investors' risk appetite trends down: State Street

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026
... moderate risk stance by the month's end. The Institutional Investors Indicators showed that overall allocation exposure to equities continued to rise to their highest since October 2007, while allocations to bonds and cash decreased further to their ...

Global pension assets near $90tn: Research

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026
... contrary to Japan (6%), Netherlands (7%), and Switzerland (12%). Further, Australia's pension assets remained largely in equities (55%) in 2025, followed by 22% in alternative asset classes, 13% in bonds, and 9% in cash. Commenting, Thinking Ahead Institute ...

Family offices hunt opportunities in AI: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2026
... compared with 10% of global offices. On average, some 75% of participants' assets are allocated to a combination of public equities and alternatives. Listed equities continue to dominate at 38.4% as family offices have a large chunk of their money parked ...

Future Fund adds $30bn to FUM in 2025

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2026
... result," Arndt said. "This result included excellent contributions from a range of asset classes, particularly listed equities, private equity, infrastructure and alternatives. The performance of our venture capital holdings was especially strong. "While ...

Australian United Investment merges with Diversified United Investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2026
... implemented by way of scheme of arrangement. AUI is a listed investment company which specialises in Australian listed equities. DUI is a listed investment company which invests in Australian and international equities. Under the scheme, AUI would acquire ...

Nanuk AM hires former Lazard distribution lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
Lazard Asset Management's former Australian retail sales chief has landed at a global equities specialist. Nanuk Asset Management has appointed Ben Granbery to a new role as key account manager. Based in Sydney, Granbery is tasked with continuing ...

HMC Capital wholesale head exits for COO position

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
HMC Capital's head of wholesale distribution has departed after 18 months to join an equities investment manager. Tim Koroknay has left David Di Pilla's ASX-listed alternatives firm to take up the role of operating chief at the staff-owned WaveStone ...

ASX names members of new advisory group

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
... investors is represented. "Super funds are the largest shareholding bloc on the ASX, holding one third of local listed equities. That means 17 million Australians with super have a direct stake in the quality of corporate governance across our public ...

Blackwattle launches fund, mandates Equity Trustees

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2026
... fund, appointing Equity Trustees as responsible entity. The Blackwattle Equity Income Fund invests in listed Australian equities beyond traditional dividend-paying stocks, while also using equity options to help generate regular income through range ...