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Link Group agrees to sell BCM arm

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
Link Group has sold its banking and credit management (BCM) business for cash consideration up to $48 million to Irish firm LC Financial Holdings (LCFH). The transaction is expected to complete in the second half of the year, subject to the Financial ...

Pella broadens horizons, launches UCITS fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2023
Pella Funds Management's offering is gaining traction abroad, with the Sydney-based firm launching a UCITS fund in Europe. Pella has launched the Pella Global Securities Sustainable Fund, domiciled in Luxembourg. It applies the same strategy as its ...

Australian retirement system given B+

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2022
Australia's retirement system has been awarded a B+ by Mercer and the CFA Institute in their 2022 Global Pension Index, ranking sixth overall for the second consecutive year. The index covers 44 retirement systems around the world, measuring them on ...

FM Global appoints APAC executives

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
FM Global has appointed several of its senior executives to new roles. Its former vice president, manager, global sales for APAC, James Thompson has been named senior vice president, APAC division manager. In the new role, Thompson will be responsible ...

AustralianSuper breaks into world's top 20 pension funds

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2022
The superannuation giant has jumped two places in a global survey of pensions and now ranks number 20 with total assets of US$169 billion. According to annual research conducted by the Thinking Ahead Institute and Pensions & Investments, 15 Australian ...

Morrison & Co buys stake in Lyntia Networks

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2022
Morrison & Co has acquired a 33.3% stake in Spanish open access wholesale fibre operator, Lyntia Networks. Lyntia operates a metro and long-haul fibre network in Spain spanning more than 43,000 km, providing B2B connectivity services on a wholesale ...

Australian market praised in latest pension study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022
Global pension fund assets have doubled in the last decade, with Australia's pension assets growing by 11.6% in 2021 and seeing it described as "the most successful pensions market". The latest Global Pension Assets Study from Willis Towers Watson's ...

AustralianSuper sells to Dutch pension fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
The nation's largest super fund offloaded a share of its interest in Ausgrid to the Netherlands' dominant pension provider. AustralianSuper sold 16.8% of its interest in the electricity distributor to APG Asset Management, the investment manager of ...

GSFM hires new product manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2021
GSFM has created a new product manager role and appointed a former senior staffer from BT Financial Group to the post. Natasja Liddell was hired to help meet the multi-affiliate fund manager's growing investor demand. Based in Sydney, she reports ...

Economic recap: Week to November 26

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2021
Out of (South) Africa Just when citizens of Planet Earth were beginning to enjoy their new-found freedom - through herd immunity, increased vaccinations and/or learning to live with Delta - comes a new kid in town. And it's name is Omicron. The discovery ...