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Rest invests in agriculture fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024
Rest has invested in an agriculture-focused fund that focuses on sustainable farming, practices and companies. Rest has allocated capital to Cibus Fund II, which "focuses on delivering strong returns through investment opportunities related to the food ...

Aware Super, ART hire member service heads

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024
... retirement." Wealth of knowledge As for ART's recruit, Helen Crossan has worked across super, investment and retirement. Lachlan East, the fund's chief member officer, said with 25 years of experience as a contact centre and service leader, Crossan ...

Volatility an opportunity for skilled active managers: GSFM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2024
... of the world's population, in addition to the continuing Russia-Ukraine conflict and escalating tensions in the Middle East. Considering conflating structural and geopolitical risks, Miller questioned the Goldilocks scenario's assumption of a ...

Australian Ethical super chief goes for growth in 2024

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2024
... investment market volatility and geopolitical tensions. "The continued conflict in Ukraine and recent issues in the Middle East typically result in a run on energy-type stocks, which often have a sugar hit at times of market volatility," he said. "For ...

Emerging markets well placed for 2024

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2024
... local currency debt still trades near its most attractive historical and cyclical levels (especially on an ex-China/South East Asia basis)," Buchet said. "Across emerging markets, disinflation is now well entrenched, thanks to emerging market central ...

Pension Protection Fund appoints chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2024
The UK's Pension Protection Fund named a new chief executive, formerly on the executive team at PSP Investments. Michelle Ostermann will succeed Oliver Morley as chief executive of the $62.8 billion fund, which oversees the defined benefit entitlements ...

Finnfund names chief investment officer

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2024
... independent director at Bank of Georgia. Loikkanen has previously worked in management positions at Nordea Finance Group and East Capital. Interestingly, Loikkanen also has connections to Australia, having pursued her master's degree in international ...

Australian Retirement Trust selects chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023
... he took on in March 2021, following several other senior global roles that saw him work across Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and the US. At the beginning of his tenure with Mercer, Anderson held a raft of roles in Australia before becoming ...

QIC opens new international office

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023
... evolution, affording us the opportunity to demonstrate our commitment to like-minded capital partners across the Asian and Middle East regions," Rampa said. "These capital partners are sophisticated and active in the Australian private market, where ...

Interest rate hikes are working: Bullock

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2023
... from many countries' national security standpoint. "[They] don't want to be reliant on importing oil from the Middle East or other countries that requires a whole lot of capital, a whole lot of investment that by its nature is inflationary," ...