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Wilson Asset Management launches Founders Fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2025
... Wilson said after more than 40 years in financial markets, one universal truth stands out: "all great businesses of the world are founder led." Wilson Asset Management portfolio manager Tobias Yao said founder-led companies have generated significant ...

Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2025
... competitiveness and fiscal sustainability, according to a White House statement. "Sovereign wealth funds exist around the world as mechanisms to amplify the financial return to a nation's assets and leverage those returns for strategic benefit and goals," ...

LGT Capital Partners brings $1.6bn PE strategy to Australia

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2025
... strategy invests in over 850 underlying portfolio companies and benefits from over 800 private equity sponsors around the world to access "strong deal flow". Of the $1.6 billion raised across the world, LGT Capital Partners said an Australia institutional ...

Australian Ethical loses super chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... faith-based superannuation fund. Before Christian Super and Australian Ethical, Piper served as chief operating officer at World Vision Australia and spent five years based in Cyprus as the charity's senior director of operations in the Middle East ...

FOMC holds rates as Chalmers boasts 'our inflation is lower'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... market "cool off" more. Chalmers said Australia was not having to play the same balancing act. "Many countries around the world have paid for this kind of progress on inflation with much higher unemployment, or with negative quarters of economic growth," ...

Minimum service standards for super funds welcomed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
... said it was committed to working with the government to establish the new standards. "Scrutiny and high standards drive our world-class sector forward," ASFA chief executive Mary Delahunty said. "We welcome the government's focus on strengthening member ...

AustralianSuper welcomes AI tech competition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
... routers (hardware) were seen as the gateway to the internet, and propelled Cisco to becoming the largest company in the world," he said. "But in the 2000s it became clear that software (search, social, etc) would become the dominant players in the internet ...

Martin Currie adds to active ETF stable

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... and dividend revisions now improving for quality real assets, the portfolio fundamentals look good. Unlike the unlisted world, listed real assets have now priced in higher interest rates so our portfolio offers attractive valuations." The fund joins ...

One in three investors to boost private credit holdings: Survey

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... Coller Capital said. The Winter 2024/25 Global Private Capital Barometer surveyed 110 private market investors across the world and found that 37% plan to increase their allocation to private credit. Nearly half (47%) plan to keep the same allocation ...

More climate exits as Trump takes charge

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
Northern Trust and two other asset managers have left Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) as four banks exit the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). Northern Trust is the latest to depart both CA100+ and Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAM); MFS Investment ...