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Platinum awards mandate, changes fund name

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2026
Platinum Asset Management has awarded a mandate to a US-based investment manager to oversee investment capabilities in a 20-year-old fund, simultaneously altering the name to reflect the update. From October 26, the Platinum International Health Sciences ...

Robeco pitches Enhanced Indexing strategy to instos

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2026
... management that aims to generate alpha without taking on excessive benchmark-relative risk. The strategy is offered as a mandate rather than a pooled fund. This means institutional investors can define risk budgets, exclusions, sustainability preferences ...

Mercer reshapes fund manager lineup for fixed income strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2026
Mercer Australia has halved the number of fixed income fund managers in its sovereign bond fund strategy, retaining just Challenger Life and Macquarie Investment Management. From December 1, Jamieson Coote Asset Management and Schroders Investment Management ...

AMP sees $1.5bn flow into platforms

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2026
... market movements partly offset by net cash outflows and pension payments. During the period, AMP won an employer super mandate and expects to begin implementation in the first quarter of 2027. AMP said this is an important signal of AMP Super's offer ...

FEATURE | Governance | Stumping up

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2026
"No one can predict a fraud in advance. We're not clairvoyants." The chair of Diversa Trustees, Vincent Plant, testified before last month's parliamentary committee inquiry into the collapse of the Shield and First Guardian master funds. The ...

IMF sees inflation above RBA target through 2027

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2026
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected Australia's inflation to ease to 3.1% in 2027 from 3.9% this year, leaving it outside the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) target range of 2% to 3%. The IMF's latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) estimates ...

Natixis IM secures Singapore equity market mandate

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2026
... deepening the country's equities market and attracting broader investor participation. Announced on October 9, the mandate forms part of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's Equity Market Development Programme (EQDP), which seeks to support the ...

Mason Stevens farewells managing director

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2026
... this year, as it continues to expand into the high-net-worth (HNW) and ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) segments, including a mandate secured late last year with independent advisory firm GloryHouse. Taylor succeeds Jacqueline Fernley, who departed the firm ...

Super funds bring more investment management inhouse

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2026
... external managers remain an important part of superannuation investment strategies. Rainmakers' analysis of around 8400 mandate relationships found external mandates typically lasted around 2.9 years. Schmidt said funds were increasingly taking a selective ...

HESTA unveils new leaders for property, financial risk

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2026
HESTA has named a pair of general managers, who will be joining the $107 billion super fund, joining from Aware Super and QIC. Daniel Tait will join as general manager, investment and financial risk later this month, while Briar Dowsett will commence ...