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GQG assets hit record high despite underperformance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2025
GQG Partners' assets jumped $4 billion to reach a record high of US$172.4 billion for the 2025 financial year despite experiencing "short-term relative underperformance". "We have continued to position our portfolios defensively, and as a result ...

Instos committed to ESG despite lower advocacy: BNP Paribas

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2025
The BNP Paribas ESG Survey 2025 found most institutional investors remain committed to sustainable investing, while also moving towards more specific ESG-related investment themes to ensure both return and impact. The survey revealed that while there ...

Cbus, Rest deliver 'strong' returns amid heightened volatility

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2025
Cbus and Rest have reported their results for the financial year ending June 30, sharing common themes in success from both domestic and global investments. Cbus Growth MySuper investment option returned 10.29% throughout the period. Its High Growth ...

Janus Henderson finalises strategic partnership with life insurer

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
Janus Henderson has commenced its strategic partnership with The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian), set to manage Guardian's US$45 billion ($68bn) investment grade public fixed income portfolio. The partnership was initially ...

HESTA returns 10.18% to members

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
HESTA's MySuper Balanced Growth option has delivered 10.18% for the 2024/25 financial year, with the fund crediting the performance of listed equities and prudent management of market volatility for the result. The outcome represents the third consecutive ...

Improved economy not a guarantee of business success

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
While Australia's chief financial officers are confident the economy has passed its low point, this doesn't necessarily stretch to their own business performance over the next 12 months. Deloitte's biannual CFO Sentiment report gathers responses from ...

AMP Super delivers double digit returns in FY25

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
AMP delivered strong returns for its MySuper and Future Directions members in the year to June 30. For the period, members of AMP's MySuper 1970s, 1980s and 1990s options have achieved returns of 12.7%, 12.9% and 12.8% respectively. Meanwhile, MySuper ...

Brookfield to divest retirement living platform for $3.85bn

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
Brookfield Asset Management is selling its local retirement home operator Aveo to The Living Company for $3.85 billion. Brookfield acquired Aveo in 2019 for about $1.3 billion. Aveo owns more than 10,000 units in metropolitan suburbs across the eastern ...

Super moves: PE exec quits Future Fund for ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
One of Future Fund's top managers has left to join Australian Retirement Trust as a portfolio manager within the private equity team. Anika Choudhury has left Australia's sovereign wealth fund where she started out a senior analyst nearly five ...

Pension leaders urge US 401(k) plans to embrace private markets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... total portfolios to private markets, with real estate often accounting for half that exposure. Funded retirement assets now top $60 trillion globally. This figure is expected to double within the next 15 years. While the US still dominates, holding two-thirds ...