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Bull market buoys super funds' 2024 returns

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2025
... with some achieving nearly 12% for their balanced options. Rest's default option made a 11.19% return for 2024, the second consecutive year of positive returns. Rest said the strong performance is largely the result of its investments in local and ...

HPI rethinks Hostplus, Charter Hall takeover

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 DEC 2024
... will also impact the free float, future liquidity, and broad investor appeal of an investment in HPI," the REIT said. The second reason is that Charter Hall and Hostplus have once again extended their offer period to 31 January 2025. While HPI still ...

Boutique global asset management firms' investment outlook

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
Global senior executives from boutique asset management firms see a proliferation of risks - and investment opportunities in 2025. Members of the Group of Boutique Asset Managers (GBAM) have spotted concentration risks in the US, geopolitical risks ...

What you read in 2024

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
... Yellow Folder. UniSuper chief investment officer John Peace and Aware Super chief investment officer Damian Graham ranked second and third respectively. Meanwhile, Hostplus chief executive David Elia and AustralianSuper chief executive Paul Schroder ...

Sue Brake joins NZ Super, Lisa Gray departs VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... wealth fund boards. Sue Brake, former Future Fund investment chief and adviser to Singapore's central bank has chosen a second role with a sovereign wealth fund. Brake, a member of the investment and risk advisory panel that advises the Monetary ...

HMC Capital unit beefs up Melbourne office

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... transaction and risk roles with Macquarie Group, Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, Australian Unity, and Westpac Institutional Bank. The second new risk specialist is Andrew Hobbs. With a background in valuations, Hobbs previously spent three years at MaxCap ...

Rest appoints two general managers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... responsible for developing and executing the fund's people strategies to enhance and evolve its employee value proposition. The second appointee, Gama Ghosn, who was previously the chief people offer at insurer NobleOak, has been named general manager ...

Macquarie AM puts money in Aussie real estate investment firm

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... MREP fund closed with approximately US$1.9 billion of equity to deploy under a global strategy in June 2024, and it is the second vehicle in MAM RE's opportunistic fund series, following the Asia-Pacific opportunistic real estate partnership (MREP ...

AMP defies super fund herd with Bitcoin bet

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2024
... assign them value," and that there's evidence "people are ascribing value to cryptocurrencies in the same way." The second part of the rationale is that Visa and Mastercard, two of the world's largest 20 companies, process payments, which is ...

Betashares terminates nine funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
... took the opportunity to evaluate its range of investment exposures to ensure they align with investor demand - only the second time in its history that such a process has been undertaken - and as part of this, decided to close a small number of funds. ...