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State Street hires from Macquarie

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021
State Street has appointed a head of transition management solutions for Asia Pacific, hiring from Macquarie Securities. Elliot Graham will lead State Street's transition management in the role of managing director within the bank's portfolio solutions ...

UK pension funds commit to manager diversity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2021
... the charter already has 17 signatories, representing $2 trillion in assets under management. This includes Cornwall Pension Fund, The Church of England Pensions Board, Nest, Lothian Pension Fund and West Midlands Pension Fund. The creation of the working ...

S&P launches new ESG tilted NZ index

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021
S&P Dow Jones Indices has introduced a new NZX 50 portfolio ESG tilted index. The rules-based index uses relevant ESG principles to select and weight constituents from the S&P/NZX 50 Portfolio Index, which is designed to measure the performance of the ...

Eliminating debt prioritised over pension contributions

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2021
... spend any disposable income (23%). If participants were given US$500, however, most would put 40% of it in their pension fund, 26% in savings and 15% to pay off debt. On a bright note, the 2021 Defined Contribution Plan Participant report found that ...

Capital Group managing director exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
Capital Group's managing director for the Australia and New Zealand business has stepped down after 10 years. The fund manager confirmed that Paul Hennessy has exited as it hired Murray Brewer in the newly created role of head of Australia client ...

BNY Mellon acquires Milestone

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
BNY Mellon will acquire Milestone Group, a funds management technology provider. The deal comes just over a year after the two companies formed an alliance to create a suite of oversight and contingent net asset value (NAV) services for asset managers ...

KLP divests Israeli-linked settlement firms

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
Norway's largest pension fund KLP has offloaded 16 companies that operate in banking, construction, infrastructure and telecommunications in Israel connected to occupying Palestinian territory. The pension fund announced on June 5 that following failed ...

Aware Super joins APG in Spanish property firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
... The industry fund has committed â,¬600 million to a firm in the Spanish residential rental market, joining Dutch pension fund APG as an equal shareholder. Vivenio Residencial Socimi S.A. develops, acquires and manages residential rental properties ...

UK pension funds pushed to merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
The UK pension sector is experiencing similar pressure to that being felt by Australia's super funds, with the pensions regulator asking defined contribution (DC) funds with less than £5 billion in assets being urged to merge. In September last ...

CalPERS adds chief equity officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021
... D'Adamo has been appointed to the role effective immediately. She was previously chief compliance officer, a role the pension fund is actively recruiting for. Timberlake D'Adamo will be responsible for fostering a culture of equality, respect and ...