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Nuveen extends private credit fund to Australian investors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024
Nuveen has extended access to its private capital platform to Australian wholesale investors via the launch of the Nuveen Churchill Private Credit Income Fund. Nuveen said the fund has already secured early investment from a range of Australian wealth ...

OC Funds Management launches fund, scores mandate

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
OC Funds Management launched its first Australian equity mid-cap fund, securing more than $500 million from MLC Asset Management. MLC Asset Management has awarded a mandate to OC to manage over $500 million in the newly launched fund. The OC Mid-Cap ...

Australian Retirement Trust primed for growth: Morningstar

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024
Morningstar has heaped praise on Australian Retirement Trust (ART), saying it is home to a "high calibre investment leadership team playing to their strengths," but warned of key person risks. In its review of the $305 billion-plus super fund, Morningstar ...

Gensler to leave SEC in January

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024
Gary Gensler, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), will leave the regulator on January 20. The SEC has announced Gensler will depart at midday on 20 January 2025, coinciding with the commencement of President-elect Donald Trump's ...

AustralianSuper to pay $4.2m for delayed claims handling

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024
AustralianSuper will compensate around 7000 beneficiaries to the sum of $4.2 million for death benefit claims that took longer than the fund's internal target handling time of four months from the date when the claim form was received. The fund ...

Trump 2.0 set to boost small and mid-caps: Canopy Investors

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024
... under a second Donald Trump administration could create opportunities in active investing, particularly in global small and mid-caps companies, according to Canopy Investors. Canopy Investors portfolio manager Kris Webster said the incoming administration's ...

Low-cost funds outperform in most asset classes: Morningstar

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2024
... predicting a fund's success, the strength of the correlation differs across categories, Morningstar said, as Australian mid and small-cap equities have equally returned 28%. The outlier is attributed to consistent missteps in stock selection by active ...

Active managers outperform in limited asset classes, fall short in survivorship

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024
... the end of June 2024. "Active funds in the fixed-income domain have more than made up for their lag in performance prior to mid-2020. The numbers are quite favourable for active funds not only for shorter periods but also through the trailing 10 years," ...

Chief member officer departs Rest

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2024
... decade-long career with Rest, Deborah Potts will step down from her role as chief member officer and finish up with the fund in mid-December. The $90 billion superannuation fund has started the search for her replacement. Chief executive Vicki Doyle ...

Property 'well-placed' for growth: Knight Frank

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
... property, particularly well-located core assets, with markets slowly pricing at a "cyclical low and recovery predicted to begin in mid-2025." "Investors acquiring assets now, after values have adjusted down, but have not yet started the recovery, will ...