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Key Budget measure won't help economy: Academic

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2022
... which is what happened with the 2008 Global Financial Crisis," he said. "The Treasurer should establish and finance a sovereign wealth fund managed by a trust comprised of people from all walks of life - including economists." In this scenario, the board ...

GIC bolsters Australian real estate JV

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2022
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC expanded its partnership with a local real estate fund manager by injecting its joint venture with an additional $2.4 billion. NorthWest Australia's healthcare real estate joint venture with GIC has reached ...

Women in Super names new chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2022
... director at Goldman Sachs Asset Management in London where she worked with Northern European and Middle Eastern pension and sovereign wealth funds.

Vanguard suspends trading in Russian securities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... our investment decisions for the foreseeable future". As such, it will make no new investments in Russia or Belarus sovereign or corporate debt, or equities. At the time, Franklin Templeton had less than 0.5% of assets under management at a firm level ...

NZ Super Fund excludes Russian debt, state-owned holdings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2022
The NZ Super Fund and three other New Zealand institutional investors have excluded Russian sovereign debt and investments in majority state-owned enterprises and will look to divest any current holdings as soon as possible. NZ Super Fund, the Accident ...

MSCI downgrades Russia's ESG rating

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2022
... risk to Russia's ESG rating, and an additional downgrade may occur. For the downgrade to occur, MSCI had to initiate a 'Sovereign Watch' event assessment, which only occurs in extraordinary circumstances and assesses major events on a scale from 'Minor' ...

Chief economist: Thank you, Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022
... Asian financial crisis of 1997/98; the dotcom bust in 2000; the global financial crisis in 2008/09; and, the European sovereign debt crisis of 2010/13. Threats and sanctions won't stop Putin, the US and NATO know it. At the same time, they're ...

BlackRock strengthens Australasia, APAC leadership

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2022
... to serve as a member of the Australian board and have high-level responsibility for sales and client servicing across sovereign entities, pension funds, banks, insurers, asset managers, asset consultants, family offices and financial advice practices," ...

Future Fund now over $200bn

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2022
Australia's sovereign wealth fund has cracked $200 billion in assets for the first time, its latest portfolio update has revealed. Future Fund continued to grow over the December quarter, contributing to an annual return of 19.1% for the calendar year ...

200% more ESG investments from sovereign funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 JAN 2022
New data suggests sovereign wealth funds globally increased their commitments to ESG investments by 215.27% between 2020 and 2021. The amount sovereign wealth funds have invested in ESG strategies surged from US$7.2 billion to $22.7 billion. Over the ...