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Willis Towers Watson buys funds from advice group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2023
Willis Towers Watson acquired two managed investment schemes from Profile Financial Services, as the latter looks to focus its efforts on financial advice. The two multi-asset, multi-manager unitised schemes have been operated by Profile since their ...

Rest awards mandate to specialist fund manager

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2023
Rest has granted an investment mandate to renewable fund manager Octopus Australia, seeking to bolster long-term returns for its 1.9 million members. The $75 billion industry fund's investment coincides with Octopus closing its second fundraising round ...

Natixis IM eyes expansion with new retail AFSL

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2023
Natixis Investment Managers has expanded its Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) to target retail clients, affording broader access to strategies from its collective of global investment managers. Natixis IM country head of Australia and New ...

How to warm up for a 50-degree day

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2023
Institutional investors need to prepare for what would happen when Australia's temperature hits 50 degrees and analyse the impacts on investments and communities. The impact of a 50-degree day was the subject of a climate risk simulation exercise at ...

SG Hiscock partners with US fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2023
SG Hiscock & Company has joined forces with a US fund manager to offer its global small cap strategy in Australia. The partnership with EAM Global Investors means SG Hiscock will have exclusive rights to distribute the strategy to local investors. San ...

Qualitas scores another $700m from ADIA

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2023
... Just last week, Qualitas received a $750 million investment in its Construction Debt Fund II by an unnamed institutional investor.

State Super equities lead exits

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2023
After five and a half years at State Super, Andrew Huang has departed to set up his own shop in the sustainability space. As reported last week, Jonathan Chung has stepped into Huang's role of senior investment manager - equities. Huang has left ...

Institutional investor pumps $750m into Qualitas fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2023
... in the commercial real estate (CRE) private credit sector. The commitment of $750 million by an unnamed institutional investor brings the size of the fund to $1.95 billion, and Qualitas' total committed funds under management (FUM) to about $6.8 billion. ...

Challenger Life books record annuity sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023
Challenger Life reaped the benefits of regulatory reforms in the 2023 financial year and a greying population as retail and institutional investors alike increasingly turn to retirement income products. Annuity sales stemming from the domestic retail ...

MFS appoints new country head

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023
MFS Investment Management has appointed Josh Barton as managing director and head of Australia and New Zealand, replacing Marian Poirier. Barton is currently responsible for leading the firm's sales efforts involving institutional investors in Australia ...