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Kenya to establish sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... base for future generations when the nation's minerals and petroleum resources are exhausted. It will be seeded with $2.3 billion (Ksh200bn) in capital. In relation to strategic infrastructure investments, the Kenyan treasury said this may include but ...

MLC sets sights on top super funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... According to APRA statistics, at June end across MLC Super Fund and IOOF Portfolio Service Superannuation there was about $165 billion in funds under management.

Government taps IFM, Plenary for Southeast Asia boost

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... Both investments are administered by Export Finance Australia (EFA) and are being delivered through the government's $2 billion Southeast Asia Investment Financing Facility (SEAIFF). Under the strategy, IFM will target investments in companies across ...

VanEck joins uranium rush with new ETF

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
... reporting greater usage and 65% using two or more smart beta strategies. The Australian ETF market recently passed the $300 billion mark, hitting the milestone well before it was expected to reach it.

BlackRock expands fixed income ETF lineup

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
... ETFs and has around $5.2 trillion in assets under management as of September. In Australia, iShares ETFs has crossed $50 billion assets under management. BlackRock has also been gearing up to list a Bitcoin ETF for Australian investors. It currently ...

M&A makes rebound, creating higher-value deals: Deloitte

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
... corporate groups and credit funds, the report said. "For example, the US-based private equity firm CC Capital invested $3.3 billion to take Insignia Financial private earlier this year, and its main rival was another private equity fund, Bain Capital," ...

US pension funds move against James Hardie chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
... James Hardie chair at the company's AGM this week. This comes after James Hardie faced significant backlash over a $14 billion deal to acquire US-based Azek. A deal that was done without an investor vote, leading to backlash from other major investors ...

Apostle partners with Qtron Investments

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
... equities, global enhanced equities, global small cap equities, and global long/short equities. As of June 30, it has US$1.25 billion in assets under management. Apostle managing director Mitchell Gunman said: "We believe there is a gap in the market ...

Super funds raise stakes in US investments to US$1.44tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... of members," SMC said. In February, modelling by SMC, IFM Investors and Mandala estimated that super funds' US$400 billion investment in the US at the time would grow to about US$1 trillion over a decade. Most of this is invested in US equities and ...

Fees below 0.65% drive ETP success, flows: Rainmaker

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... at less than 0.65% p.a. to give their products any chance of success," the report said. The ETP sector went past $300 billion in funds under management (FUM) at the end of September, according to the ASX, jumping 37% year over year.