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New chief executive for JPMAM

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2021
... new role, Creber said part of his focus will be on sustainable investing and enhancing the firm's offerings in the alternatives space. "Australia is an important strategic growth market for JPMAM and I'm excited to build on the strong foundation and ...

Bitcoin fund manager hires distribution lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... progressively releasing this content over a range of mediums," Hobart said. In a bid to expand, Yew appointed former Blue Sky Alternatives chief investment officer David Hobart as Monochrome's investments chief. Chief operating officer of Non Correlated ...

Future Fund appoints portfolio strategy lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2021
... December 2020 after Sue Brake moved to Future Fund's chief investment role. Samild was most recently the head of alternatives, looking after Future Fund's $30 billion allocation to hedge funds and other skills-based absolute return strategies. ...

Acadian launches multi-asset fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021
... across and within global markets and will be available for institutional and wholesale investors seeking a defensive alternatives exposure. The fund aims to deliver a return above the S&P/ASX Bank Bill index with a targeted volatility of 6% over rolling ...

Crypto fund hires from Blue Sky

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
A new cryptocurrency fund has launched in Australia has appointed its chief investment officer from Blue Sky Alternatives. The Monochrome Bitcoin Fund, a unit trust aiming to provide institutional investors exposure to Bitcoin, launched last month. ...

Alternatives, equities dominate mandates

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2021
Not-for-profit superannuation funds appointed 377 mandates in the 12 months ending March, with alternatives and Australian equities winning the lion's share. By number, alternatives mandates were the popular (46% of 377), followed by equities (29%) ...

Preqin expands local team

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2021
The alternatives research house has hired two on its Australian team, as it looks to expand its local data coverage. Mery Apolloni has joined as a senior research associate from S&P Global Market Intelligence and Tanzila Awrna has joined as a research ...

Mercer bolsters alternatives team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2021
Mercer has appointed an alternatives investment director for the Pacific region after seeing increased client interest for alternative assets in the region. Marcus De Kock joins from Mercer UK where he was a senior investment strategist in the Institutional ...

Aussie investors optimistic about returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
... need to generate higher returns to achieve their retirement outcomes and potentially look to asset classes such as alternatives and real assets to generate higher returns in a low-yield environment. Some major concerns for Australian investors as they ...

Court orders new group definition in CBA advice class action

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
... claimed Commonwealth Bank financial advisers put them in expensive CMLA life insurance policies instead of cheaper alternatives have been asked to work to a new group definition. The group proceedings were filed by Diana Tyrrell and Edward Thomas. They ...