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Super moves: ART, Allianz, HESTA, AusSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
... chief executive officer of Magellan Financial Group for 18 months following 14 years at Australia's sovereign wealth fund. Meanwhile, AustralianSuper has promoted Helen Lagis to head of valuations and portfolio reporting. Lagis has long led the fund's ...

State Street enters strategic alliance with Qatar

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2026
... executed at a later date. QNB Group is Qatar's largest financial institution and is 50% owned by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund. The deal was signed during the World Economic Forum in Davos in the presence of Qatar's Minister of Finance. State Street ...

Spain plans sovereign wealth fund launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2026
Spain is launching a sovereign wealth fund to extend the stimulus of the NextGenerationEU funds that saw it through COVID-19. The new fund, to be named 'Spain Grows', will primarily invest in sectors like artificial intelligence (AI), digitalisation ...

Super moves: NGS Super, HESTA, Mercer

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026
NGS Super has promoted Miao Yu to portfolio manager, currency and commodities. Most recently, Yu served as a senior investment analyst at the $17 billion fund for over two years, after joining in 2023 as an investment analyst. Previously, she worked ...

Super moves: WATC, Medibank, HESTA, Future Fund

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2026
... Halliday has stepped down from her role as director of investment stewardship and ESG at Australia's sovereign wealth fund. After a long career spanning markets, governance and investment stewardship at AMP Capital and the Future Fund, Halliday is ...

Global sovereign wealth fund assets grow to $15tn

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2026
Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) crossed US$15 trillion in assets under management for the first time in December 2025 and, together with public pension funds (PPFs) and central banks (CBs), now manage US$60 trillion in assets and reserves. Global SWF's ...

Super moves: Aware, VFMC, CareSuper, UniSuper, NGS

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025
... investment leadership experience to the board role. She served as chief investment officer of Australia's sovereign wealth fund for two years until 2022. Brake is currently chair of Australian AI company Dragonfly Thinking. She also sits on the board ...

South Korea looks to Australia for next sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
South Korea is establishing another sovereign wealth fund, with this one to be modelled on the Future Fund. Launching the National Growth Fund yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Yooncheol Koo said the government would ...

Brookfield, sovereign wealth fund sign AI joint venture

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
Brookfield is partnering with a newly established subsidiary of the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) to fund and develop artificial intelligence infrastructure. Earlier this week, the QIA launched Qai, a dedicated AI company. The aim is for Qai to develop ...

Super moves: HESTA, Nest, Resolution Life, NZ Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025
... from a super fund to an insurer. She joined the Suncorp New Zealand after six years with the NZ$86 billion sovereign wealth fund, where she served as senior investment strategist in the direct investments team. Salazar - an investment professional with ...