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Kenya to establish sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... Sovereign Wealth Fund is designed to provide a buffer from fluctuations in resource revenues or macro-economic shocks; provide finance for strategic infrastructure investment priorities; and build a savings base for future generations when the nation's ...

Government taps IFM, Plenary for Southeast Asia boost

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... Asia Public-Private Partnership (PPP) investment fund established by Plenary. Both investments are administered by Export Finance Australia (EFA) and are being delivered through the government's $2 billion Southeast Asia Investment Financing Facility ...

Federated Hermes to acquire majority interest in FCP

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
Federated Hermes has agreed to acquire an 80% interest in Federal Capital Partners Fund Manager (FCP). The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2026, and will be the second private markets acquisition made by Federated Hermes since ...

Super moves: AusSuper, Aware, MLC, JANA, VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... infrastructure and has more than 25 years of experience in the infrastructure sector, working across infrastructure acquisitions, finance and investment management in Australia, Europe and the United States. Before joining the superannuation giant, Peasley ...

Complaints still too high: AFCA annual review

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... is attributed to add-on insurance complaints, otherwise levels remain consistent with the last two years. Banking and finance complaints have continued to make up the largest number of submissions, consisting of 54% of all complaints received. Despite ...

Feature: Retirement | Rewarding risk

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), which is $690,000 for couples and $595,000 for singles. "I watch the finance shows and read the press which talks about how you need $1.4 million for a comfortable retirement," says Manserra. "Yes ...

Feature: Group insurance | Cold comfort

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
For much of the past year or so, there has been a great deal of focus on the superannuation industry and its processing of insurance claims, largely owing to immense delays at some of the largest institutions. Stories have emerged of the likes of AustralianSuper ...

Allianz Retire+ rejigs executive team, product and marketing chief exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... protection. Park was previously the regional chief risk officer at Allianz Asia Pacific and based in Singapore. Fink was in finance roles at Capricorn Society and QBE Insurance and before that worked at Allianz based in Germany. "We're entering an ...

Super funds to double UK, EU investments over next decade

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... world's biggest economies are competing for our pension capital, which means more money in retirement for Australians and finance that supports critical infrastructure projects and jobs in the UK and Europe," Super Members Council's chief executive Misha ...

FINSIA's struggle to find scale

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... more than 135-year history in Australia. It was formed in 2005 by the merger of the Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance, which was established by a group of bankers in 1886, and the Securities Institute of Australia which was created in 1966. ...