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First Super deputy CEO jumps ship

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... expectations. Boucher earlier held a senior marketing role at State Trustees, the state government-owned company and the public trustee for Victoria.

Super moves: PE exec quits Future Fund for ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... Linda Scott has joined the board of ClearView Wealth as an independent non-executive director. Scott is an experienced public figure and governance expert with decades of board experience across sectors. She currently chairs the Alcohol and Drug Foundation ...

Pension leaders urge US 401(k) plans to embrace private markets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... exposure in U.S. DC plans - offering stable income, inflation protection, and alignment with participant familiarity and public policy goals. Although the US commands two-thirds of the world's funded retirement assets, most US DC plans allocate less ...

Hollywood actors lobby pension fund to dump fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... US$5 billion ($7.7bn) SAG-Producers Pension Plan to phase out its coal, oil and gas holdings. It notes that while many public and private pension funds the world over have committed to divestment, just 0.2% of current commitments are from cultural institutions. ...

Old challenges push asset managers to inflection point: Citi

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... as a key challenge. More than half of the 269 global asset managers surveyed, including ones from Australia investing in public and private markets, said fee compression has been accelerating. A similar number of managers claim costs have been rising ...

Uncertainty propels investors towards active managers

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... so, with 77% believing active management can "deliver value". Investors are also actively seeking returns through both public and private markets, with public equities (46%) and private equity (53%) emerged as the preferred asset classes for the current ...

ART overhaul sees senior portfolio managers exit

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... operations and restructure its leadership pick up pace. These departures follow the recent exits of Greg Barnes, head of public markets, and Herbert Chang, head of capital markets, whose roles have been farmed out to other executives. Elizabeth Kumaru ...

Rest, NZ Super Fund top global rankings for best practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... in 2020, the annual study examines all the publicly available information from the world's largest sovereign wealth and public pension funds to compile its scorecard. It assesses criteria including transparency and accountability, governance structure ...

New SMSF industry body launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... Accounting. Cooper said: "The mission of the council is to create opportunities for technology development, knowledge-sharing and public-private consultation needed to incorporate aspects of the digital economy into diversified retirement portfolios ...

Firms rebuffing AFCA determinations should be named: FAAA, professional bodies

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... occasion to give effect to an AFCA determination. Along with the Chartered Accountants ANZ, CPA Australia, Institute of Public Accountants and SMSF Association, the FAAA expressed concerns that failure to "pay AFCA determinations and the resultant impact ...