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Zenith enters superannuation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... the business is well aligned with Zenith's corporate values and ambitions. "Chant West has been serving super and pension funds, employers and financial advisers for over two decades with unbiased research, member-focused consultancy services and user-friendly ...

CalPERS investment lead targeted by Congressman

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... Control's list of prohibited companies. "The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), like state pension funds across America, relies on global investments to generate a 7% return that is needed to provide retirement security to our ...

Global asset manager fills giant impact fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
... Australian firms. The firm said the fund - which attracted support from a "diverse" set of investors, including pension funds, family offices and high net-worths - was focused on identifying and investing in opportunities where financial performance ...

Pension assets climb towards $50 trillion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... alternatives 23% and cash 3%. Thinking Ahead Institute co-head Marisa Hall explained that with this growth, the ways large pension funds function internally are also shifting. "Besides strong growth in assets last year, there was a noticeable pick-up ...

American private debt fund eyes Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... Richard Levy and Brendan Carroll said on a recent visit to Sydney. Among its investors are the sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurers and the World Bank's International Finance Corporation. The firm primarily focuses on institutional investors ...

Aussie investment gurus delve into alternatives

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... briefings in Melbourne and Sydney during December 2019, and include investment professionals from superannuation funds, pension funds, investment consultants, family offices, insurers, sovereign wealth funds and financial advisory services.

UK pension fund expands offering, climate risk policy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... responsible for more than $760 million new contributions each month as it steadily joins the ranks of the UK's largest pension funds. Nest said having an FCA regulated subsidiary will help it implement more sophisticated ways of investing on behalf of ...

Insto investors confused by environmental equities

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... good idea but it's not easy to help them see what job it does or how to fit it in in terms of allocation." Most pension funds and super funds that invest with Impax, he said, assess environmental equities as a satellite to global equities. "Pension funds ...

AMP Capital boosts Asia presence after record raise

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2019
... time there was a stronger demand for it in Asia than in Australia," Keary said. He said investors in the fund are pension funds, insurance companies and some sovereign wealth funds. "That's the ultimate, from my perspective, managing money on behalf ...

Australia climbs up Mercer global pension index

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
... wealth effect - which explains increased spending as a result of rising wealth - in relation to pension assets. With pension funds holding more by way of assets, Knox said people felt more financially secure and were thus borrowing money to improve their ...