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Future Fund reshuffles investment team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... property portfolio are in great shape and well positioned to continue to deliver outstanding results," Brakey said. The sovereign wealth fund was valued at $141bn as at 31 March 2018.

Responsible investment now mainstream

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... on a review of the ESG practices of 51 super funds covering almost $1.3 trillion. Adding the Future Fund and NZ Super sovereign wealth funds lifts the market coverage of the report's sample to $1.4 trillion, equivalent to half Australia's FUM market. ...

Australian asset owners support first stewardship code

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... focus that asset owners have on good stewardship. It is open to all asset owners including super funds, endowments and sovereign wealth funds, not just ACSI members. ACSI highlighted stewardship codes exist in many global markets including the UK, US ...

Pension funds must recognise stewardship licence: WTW

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... little is being spent globally on asset owner stewardship. An expert in the area says the world's largest pension and sovereign wealth funds must see corporate sustainability from the viewpoint that it's a long-term licence to operate. Willis Towers ...

Norway dominates sovereign wealth funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
Norway's Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) remains the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, buoyed by an equities portfolio propelling most of its US$1.06 trillion assets under management. Preqin's latest sovereign wealth fund asset report shows ...

Future Fund continues progress yet challenges lay ahead

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
Australia's sovereign wealth fund has continued to exceed benchmark return targets, with the fund now standing at $141 billion. Chair of the Future Fund Board of Guardians, Peter Costello, was pleased with performance of the fund, but mentioned that ...

Global pension fund appoints APAC lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... Pension Plan will welcome Datuk Ben Chan as regional managing director, Asia Pacific in June. Chan joins from Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad where he has spent the last 13 years. Joining in 2005, Chan is currently executive ...

CBA mulls sale of Indonesian life business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... Australia and New Zealand life business to AIA Group in September last year. The $3.8 billion sale of CommInsure Life and Sovereign included a 20-year bancassurance partnership with AIA for the provision of life insurance products. However, the CommInsure ...

Fidante forms partnership with $500m firm

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... suite, and that it will "provide Latigo with access to well-suited, long-term global institutional investors including sovereign wealth funds, national pensions and superannuation funds." Latigo was founded in 2005 by former Satellite Asset Management ...

Chief economist update: The other president for life in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... While already on an uptrend, S&P Global Ratings upgrade of Russia's foreign foreign currency long-term and short-term sovereign credit ratings to investment grade of 'BBB-/A-3' from the junk level of 'BB+/B' on 23 February gave Moscow's currency and ...