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King's honours list recognises excellence in super, finance

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... King's Birthday honours list featured several heavyweights from the superannuation, funds management and sustainable investing sectors. A superannuation fund investments chief was one of the recipients of the highly coveted Medal of the Order of ...

Lower interest rates conducive for bigger risk appetite, small caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... are changing. Having largely been intangible asset-driven companies, the likes of Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet are all investing in data centres. Data centres are hard tangible assets, and the return profile you make on hard tangible assets is not normally ...

iCapital hires Insignia exec to open office

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... investments through digital infrastructure that handles the traditionally complex operational requirements of private markets investing, including due diligence, compliance and reporting. Edwin Chan, head of client solutions for Asia-Pacific at iCapital ...

ETF Shares to bolster sales team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... but also leading it.""We're not just launching products-we're building a platform for smarter, more accessible investing. It's a rare opportunity to help shape the future of financial services from the ground up." ETF Shares - the first new ...

Touchstone closes flagship fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... fund aimed to outperform the return of the S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation Index by 2% p.a. over a rolling five-year period, investing in 15 to 25 securities. It required an initial investment minimum of $25,000. According to Morningstar, the fund had $13.9 ...

LGT Crestone, AUSIEX acquisitions finalised

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... trading and portfolio administration platform offering in the country." NRI in turn aims to strengthen AUSIEX and FIIG by investing in the development of new services and actively promoting partnerships with leading external vendors and to play a role ...

Dai-ichi Life acquires 15% of M&G

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
... consider collaborating on life insurance solutions in Europe and Japan. The partnership will also allow them to explore co-investing in new opportunities. "Dai-ichi Life Holdings is delighted to enter into a strategic alliance with M&G, a highly regarded ...

Apostle launches CastleKnight Management in Australia

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
... for the first time. New York-based CastleKnight will help Apostle deliver wholesale and institutional strategies by investing in mispriced securities and asymmetric risk-return opportunities. Apostle managing director Mitchell Gunman said CastleKnight ...

UK treasury provides guidance on local pension consolidation

MATT TOLEDO  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... private markets and UK allocation goals through industry-led collaboration." Lane said that a voluntary approach to investing in private markets is the best option. "The challenges of a mandated approach would be significant-raising legal concerns around ...

ASIC tells super: 'You have everything you need to not fail'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2025
... looking at that key data and informing yourself, and you need to be responding accordingly, including whether it's investing in certain areas, whether it's changing approach, whether it's changing process, whether it's understanding things ...