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CalPERS adopts total portfolio approach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
... provide flexibility to capitalise on opportunities. Following a board vote, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) will be the first US pension fund to adopt the investment model, with a planned implementation from 1 July 2026. ...

Future Fund rethinks portfolio amid 'greater uncertainty'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
Australia's sovereign wealth fund has outlined how the investment landscape has shifted and how it has rethought its portfolio construction amid greater global uncertainty. In its most recent Position Paper, Future Fund said it has been thinking "more ...

SMC makes recommendations to safeguard super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2025
... Shield collapses laid bare what's at stake when Australians are urged to switch their super out of the "mainstream" super system into higher-risk options. SMC said it supports ASIC chair Joe Longo's call for stronger consumer protections, such as cooling ...

Global resilience is a key systemic risk: HESTA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2025
HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey told the recent ASFA Conference 2025 that the super fund has been considering global resilience as a key thematic when making responsible investment decisions. "We see this as a systemic risk, the same as climate change ...

Former ASIC chair, FASEA chief launch trustee

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2025
James Shipton and Stephen Glenfield have joined forces with the founding chief executive of Diversa to establish an independent superannuation trustee. Super Trustees Australia has launched to help super trustees meet increased governance expectations ...

ASIC not acting as a 'market maker': Constant

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
... work on financial reporting and audit that was released a month or two ago, and that's what's really important. The whole system is really important for getting those disclosures right," Constant said. "But we do have very mature tools there, just like ...

Money laundering to become greater issue for super: AUSTRAC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
... been an issue for banks, the superannuation sector needs to prepare for an uplift as nefarious actors take advantage of a system that is less prepared. "We've got an aging population; more people are coming to that point where they're hitting ...

Quant investing bounces back post Trump whipsaw

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
US President Donald Trump's policies have had a negative impact on quant investors' strategies, but the investment style has now bounced back and is entering a positive growth phase. That's according to Simone Haslinger, chief executive ...

Top fund scoops up APRA's investment risk chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... reviews investment governance across super and insurance funds, as well as advising on investment and risk practices with system-wide implications. According to the regulator, Stewart has extensive experience managing multi-asset portfolios and expertise ...

Stay or leave: ASIC's private credit clampdown tests managers

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... of the state of their investments, which could potentially harm investors, the sector itself and the broader financial system. ASIC said that over the next 12 months it will pay particular attention to private credit fund managers. This includes looking ...