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Australian asset owners support first stewardship code

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... that asset owners have on good stewardship. It is open to all asset owners including super funds, endowments and sovereign wealth funds, not just ACSI members. ACSI highlighted stewardship codes exist in many global markets including the UK, US, Japan ...

Pension funds must recognise stewardship licence: WTW

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... is being spent globally on asset owner stewardship. An expert in the area says the world's largest pension and sovereign wealth funds must see corporate sustainability from the viewpoint that it's a long-term licence to operate. Willis Towers Watson ...

Norway dominates sovereign wealth funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
Norway's Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) remains the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, buoyed by an equities portfolio propelling most of its US$1.06 trillion assets under management. Preqin's latest sovereign wealth fund asset report shows ...

Future Fund continues progress yet challenges lay ahead

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
Australia's sovereign wealth fund has continued to exceed benchmark return targets, with the fund now standing at $141 billion. Chair of the Future Fund Board of Guardians, Peter Costello, was pleased with performance of the fund, but mentioned that ...

Global pension fund appoints APAC lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... Plan will welcome Datuk Ben Chan as regional managing director, Asia Pacific in June. Chan joins from Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad where he has spent the last 13 years. Joining in 2005, Chan is currently executive director ...

Fidante forms partnership with $500m firm

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... and that it will "provide Latigo with access to well-suited, long-term global institutional investors including sovereign wealth funds, national pensions and superannuation funds." Latigo was founded in 2005 by former Satellite Asset Management principal ...

Thomson Reuters sells analytics business to institutional investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
A Canadian pension fund, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund and a global private equity giant have purchased a stake in Thomson Reuters' Financial and Risk business. Private equity funds managed by Blackstone, together with the Canada Pension Plan Investment ...

Consistent growth fuels Future Fund cyber fears

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... among its top concerns. Future Fund chairman Peter Costello said in a portfolio update this morning that the sovereign wealth fund considers cybersecurity risk to be a major threat as it's difficult to stay ahead of attacks. He said the fund is fortunate ...

Former J.P. Morgan chief joins Future Fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
The Future Fund appointed a former J.P. Morgan chief executive to its board. Robert Priestley joins the sovereign wealth fund's Board of Guardians, replacing Steven Harker who completed his five-year term. Priestley was the chief executive of J.P. Morgan ...

Factor-based investment demand strengthens: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... global market is at the tipping point of mass adoption, he added. More than 100 global pension funds, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, financial advisers, asset consultants and banks with US$7 trillion in AUM took part in the research.