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PIMCO recruits alternatives specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... appointed Australian head of global wealth management. The recruit is tasked with distributing alternative credit and hedge fund products. The appointment comes as the US asset manager moved to beef up its product lineup aimed at the lucrative and intensely ...

The top-performing (and worst) asset classes of the past year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
Mercer's annual periodic table, which charts 17 major asset classes investment returns on an annual basis over the last decade, reveals that there's few reliable themes, except that greater risk tends to be rewarded by greater return. Equity ...

Platinum merger no cure for active managers' challenges

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
... international equites, although it also employs long/short strategies and maintains an absolute-return focus like a hedge fund," he said. Data from Morningstar Direct shows that roughly 40% of L1's retail and wholesale funds under management (FUM) have ...

No US recession priced in yet: UniSuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... same time." Colosimo said while investors don't know the reason this happened, he believes it could be to do with hedge fund activity during the period. "There was some initial speculation that it might have even been the Chinese government selling ...

Hedge fund scraps local sales role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
... New Zealand, opting to distribute through a local firm. Ciaran McAssy confirmed his departure from the fixed-income hedge fund after almost 13 years as head of sales for Asia, Australia and New Zealand. "After 12 1/2 years with BlueBay working in Hong ...

Perpetual appoints demerger specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
Perpetual Limited has recruited a chief transformation officer as the financial services giant continues to pursue the sale of its wealth management business. Song Hong joined Perpetual five months ago as a separation specialist when Perpetual was about ...

Axius names executive director

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
Axius Partners, a capital formation and advisory firm, has welcomed a new executive director. Phil Filippelis joins from Commonwealth Bank where he served as head of global portfolio solutions and deputy investment chief. "We are delighted to have Phil ...

PM Capital confirms proposal to acquire Platinum funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2025
... PAXX proposal is a plan by Platinum Investment Management to merge PAI with the Platinum Asia Fund (Quoted Managed Hedge Fund) (ASX: PAXX).

Colonial First State loses private markets manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
Colonial First State has confirmed the departure of the senior manager responsible for unlisted investments within the fund's multi-asset team. The financial services giant said Daniel Cheang's last day with the firm was February 14. Cheang's ...

Mercer appoints chief investment officer from TelstraSuper

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
... senior roles across the investment management team, including leading the property, infrastructure, opportunities, hedge fund, and private markets asset classes. "With her proven leadership skills and deep expertise across so many asset classes, Kate ...