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Fink doubles down on private markets ambitions

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2026
... launched a private markets SMA solution with Partners Group, offering retail access to private equity, private credit and real assets. Fink's 2025 letter extolled the benefits of private markets, saying the fund manager can upend the public-private ...

Super moves: Future Fund, ART, First Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
Future Fund's managing director of real assets, David Bluff, is set to leave the $267 billion sovereign wealth fund, along with Tammi Fisher (pictured), who holds the same title. Bluff joined two years ago as head of private equity, having previously ...

Aware Super hires from AustralianSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
... value for members. She joins from AustralianSuper, where she was an investment director within AustralianSuper's real assets team, Smyczynski also was an alternate director at Transurban Queensland. Her career spans senior roles at Future Fund, managing ...

Rest 'diversifies its diversifiers' with US neighbourhood malls

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026
... its exposure to retail property. USCRF invests in neighbourhood shopping centres in major US markets. Rest head of real assets for investments Andrew Bambrook said this diversifies Rest's property portfolio, which is already exposed to a number of large ...

Index managed portfolios still most popular among advisers: North

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2026
... provide access to sources of return that aren't available in listed markets. "Private equity, private credit, and real assets offer operational alpha and an illiquidity premium that can materially improve long-term real return outcomes for clients ...

Dexus strengthens infrastructure push with new hire

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2026
Dexus has bolstered its real assets platform with a new senior investment hire. The group has appointed Sally Box to the newly created role of head of growth market funds, with day-to-day responsibility for the Dexus Community Infrastructure Fund. As ...

NZ Super continues to build investment team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026
... Zealand Super - led by former Funds SA chief executive Jo Townsend (pictured) - has appointed Brendon Jones as head of real assets. Jones, who joined the fund in 2014 as an analyst in the New Zealand direct Investment team, has been key to some of the ...

Super moves: Mercer, AusSuper, Future Fund, VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
... said. Meanwhile, Carl Astorri, formerly acting head of mid-risk at AustralianSuper, has been named interim head of real assets. Astorri joined AustralianSuper in May 2023 as head of investments for Europe, having previously led asset allocation and research. ...

Vision Super adds private markets lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2026
... head of unlisted assets. Stagg joins from Zenith Investment Partners, which he joined in November 2023 as part of the real assets research team. There, he covered a diverse mix of infrastructure, real estate, private equity, and other direct investing ...

Irish sovereign wealth fund mandates four managers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2026
... equities and 20% fixed income. Over time, this will become 70% public equities, 10% publicly quoted fixed income, 10% real assets, 5% private equity and 5% private credit. The FIF is a longer-term fund and has so far received about $23 billion in contributions ...