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Trade war threat sparks allocation rethink by asset owners

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... extent, in Europe with the EU Omnibus Proposal. "Asset owners seem concerned primarily from a tactical standpoint, i.e., less data and information requirements put on companies and markets may translate into less tangible data to help make decisions ...

Government to convene a productivity roundtable

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... accounts figures show poor productivity rates persist, and on an annual basis is actually going backwards. The latest quarterly data shows GDP per hour flat for the March quarter and remaining at minus 1% for the year," McKellar said. "The business community ...

Super funds' private market assets grow to $400bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... billion invested in private market assets, jumping 34% in the two years to June 2024, Rainmaker Information analysis of APRA data shows. Private real assets, classified as unlisted investments in property and infrastructure, was the largest component ...

Financial Standard names Investment Manager of the Year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... Rainmaker said. To identify strategies that meet this criteria, Financial Standard and Rainmaker developed a quantitative data-driven methodology to find which investment managers persistently demonstrated an ability to deliver investment outcomes expected ...

State Street's plan for power, product, partnerships

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... discussing not the nature of their mandates but sharing experiences on how financial services firms move forward with technology, data, and operational strategies heading into 2026 and beyond. "Some of our asset owners are like small asset management ...

Iress' superannuation consulting business changes hands

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... service business - part of the broader superannuation division - was acquired by Apex Group last week and has now been sold to data and technology firm Novigi. As part of the transaction, Novigi scooped up over 100 specialised consultants, taking its ...

Super funds to take stock of information security controls

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... always commensurate with the evolving vulnerabilities and threats, nor with the criticality and sensitivity of the member data and assets they protect." As such, APRA has issued all super funds an assignment. All RSEs must perform a self-assessment of ...

Lower interest rates conducive for bigger risk appetite, small caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... changing. Having largely been intangible asset-driven companies, the likes of Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet are all investing in data centres. Data centres are hard tangible assets, and the return profile you make on hard tangible assets is not normally ...

Australia's largest buyout firm hires from State Street GA

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... compelling investment case for private markets. "The investment thesis behind private market exposure is strong, with historical data showing consistent return premiums over public market counterparts." He cited US market data showing private markets ...

Top companies, chief executives ranked by fund managers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
... Gianotti of Wesfarmers (Consumer Staples), Graham Tiver of Woodside Energy Group (Chemicals, Oil & Gas), Alex Harvey, chief data officer of Macquarie Group (Banks & Non-bank Finance), Gary Brown of AGL Energy (Utilities & Alternative Energy), and Joy ...