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Hostplus tripling venture capital exposure

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
... portfolio returned 21.3% and it has averaged an 8.7% per annum return over 10 years. Hostplus chief investment officer Sam Sicilia told an investment forum in Sydney that although venture capital investing is hard and risky, the sector's winners will ...

Hostplus appoints investment strategy head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
Hostplus has appointed a head of investment strategy. Reporting to chief investment officer Sam Sicilia, Greg Clerk joins Hostplus from JANA, where he was a senior consultant (and worked extensively with Hostplus). During his time there, Clerk held ...

National Achievement Awards recognise top super executives

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... (Local Government Super); and Antony Thow (LUCRF Super). Recipient of the 2014 Chief Investment Officer of the Year, Sam Sicilia (Hostplus), said it was an honour and humbling experience to receive the award. "LaTrobe Financial had the foresight to establish ...

Tech boom drives super to VC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... interest at the institutional level for its new fintech-focused fund. According to Hostplus chief investment officer Sam Sicilia, the newfound viability of super investment in VC can be attributed to significant changes in the domestic entrepreneur space. ...

Hostplus CEO joins ACSI board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... signals that there is still room to improve. Elia made the comment on the back of Hostplus chief investment officer Sam Sicilia presenting figures around the correlation between a company's market performance and executives' remuneration. Elia replaces ...

Government debt is not bad: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... establish nation building projects. Addressing an investment forum in Sydney yesterday, Hostplus chief investment officer Sam Sicilia said the federal government's focus on debt reduction is unhealthy and is likely to have unintended consequences not ...

Member direct investment needs work

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) conference yesterday, Hostplus chief investment officer Sam Sicilia said MDIOs were in general "not good for your financial wealth". Sicilia said in December Hostplus will mark the second anniversary ...

Internalisation has gone the full circle say CIOs

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... MySuper. Merlicek said IOOF do direct property in house, some cash and fixed interest. Hostplus chief investment officer, Sam Sicilia, said the company spent a lot of time learning from other entities' approach to internalisation. He believes internalisation ...

Register for the MAX Forum now

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... executive Professor David Gallagher, Mercer consumer marketing leader Cambell Holt, HOSTPLUS chief investment officer Sam Sicilia and Sunsuper chief investment officer David Hartley are coming together to share best practice in financial services marketing ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... notwithstanding additional contributions or income received from existing super investments that must be recycled. Sam Sicilia, the chief investment officer of $18 billion industry fund HOSTPLUS, told Financial Standard that his cash flows were typically ...