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BlackRock appoints new head of APAC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024
... (APAC), tasked with overseeing business, client, investment, and operational platforms for wealth and institutional investors. Chan succeeds Rachel Lord, who relocates to London and takes on the role of head of international. Chan joined BlackRock in ...

BlackRock grows private credit business

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2023
... leveraged finance accounts in their business support unit. BlackRock head of Australasia Andrew Landman said institutional investors and superannuation funds in Australia are looking for ways to add greater diversification to their portfolios - against ...

Woodford investors approve Link redress scheme

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
... Group. In total, 3.9% voted against it; by value, this comprised nearly 15% of individual investors. All institutional investors voted for the scheme. The fund once had as much as $19 billion in funds under management but was suspended in 2019, locking ...

AustralianSuper supersizes Churchill Asset Management mandate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2023
... lending to middle market companies. Nuveen's 2023 EQuilibirum survey showed that more than 80% of global institutional investors intend to "expand their reach for yield," with nearly half of those respondents revaluating their traditional fixed income ...

Mirova seeks €350m for new sustainable land management fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023
... strategy, the Mirova Sustainable Land Fund 2 (MSLF2), aiming to raise €350 million from public bodies and institutional investors. The fund seeks to support the transition and decarbonisation of agricultural and forestry value chains, with a view to ...

Platinum names new chief executive, restructures board

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023
... Australia for about a year. Peters currently works as an adviser at Curagaia, an Australian firm offering institutional investors impact investing solutions. He will assume his new role as soon as a visa is granted and this date will be communicated ...

ANZ fined $900k over shares disclosure failure

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023
... to tell the market its underwriters had filled a $790 million shortfall when raising $2.5 billion from institutional investors. ANZ claimed the shortfall wasn't material, but Federal Court Justice Moshinsky rejected this, stating that the underwriters ...

Private markets make concrete inroads with advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023
... are examples. In Australia, Haigh said private wealth advisers appear to be following the footsteps of institutional investors like super funds, which have progressively moved from zero to 30% allocations to global private markets over the last 20 years. ...

Vanguard sells outsourced CIO arm to Mercer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023
... 120-strong team. The business, which provides investment management services to not-for-profits and other institutional investors in the US, grows Mercer's existing OCIO division which dominates the sector. As at December 2022, Mercer's OCIO business ...

Barings prepares new strategies for local institutional investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023
Barings is mooting the launch of several new Asia Pacific investment strategies in 2024, aimed at "meeting the evolving needs of Australian wealth and institutional clients". The US$347 billion global investment manager anticipates that the introduction ...