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JANA selects data solutions provider

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
Investment consultant JANA has announced the appointment of a new data management provider. Melbourne-based Curium Data Systems will provide greater control and oversight across JANA's operational and investment data. This will enable JANA's operational ...

World Vision soft launches investment fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
World Vision is soft launching an endowment fund targeting the interests of institutional investors with the intention to "put their assets to use in new ways." World Vision Australia chief executive Claire Rogers told Financial Standard the fund will ...

State Street services over half of global ETF assets

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
State Street has announced that global ETF assets under its administration have exceeded US$2 trillion. The Boston-headquartered corporation now services more than half (55%) of the global industry's ETF and ETP assets under management, according to ...

Markets ignoring climate crisis: Hewson

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
Former Liberal Party leader and chair of the Asset Owners Disclosure Project, John Hewson, believes markets are ignoring a climate-induced crisis far more severe than the one caused by subprime mortgages. Speaking at a Sydney briefing discussing BetaShares' ...

NAB retains long-term asset servicing mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
NAB Asset Servicing will extend its 10-year partnership with a major Australian university for a further five years. The University of Sydney retained NAS as the custodian of its endowment funds as well as the recently-introduced Student Managed Fund ...

Myer Family Company appoints CIO

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
Myer Family Company is welcoming three new hires to its investment team, including a chief investment officer. The family office has appointed Michael E. Drew as chief investment officer along with the Adam Walk as head of investments. Drew and Walk ...

Aussie start-up wins $500m impact investing mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
A former senior financial services executive who less than 12 months ago went out on a limb to set up his own business has signed a $500 million investment mandate - with another $500 million in the works. Less than a year since its launch, Sydney-based ...

Yale returns 3.4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
Yale Endowment Fund earned 3.4% in 2015-16, fuelled by its 54% weighting to alternatives, reports its investment office. YEF's return contrasts with the 2.9% achieved by the MySuper SelectingSuper benchmark for the same period and 4.8% achieved by the ...

Findex partners to advance medical research

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... partnership will discuss potential recommendations to the federal government's Medical Research Future Fund - a perpetual endowment fund aiming to allocate $1 billion annually for priority-driven medical research. Findex global head of business development ...

Global divesting institutions reach 500

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... the global movement is the University of Massachusetts Foundation, which oversees the university's $770 million endowment fund. Spokeswoman Pamela Jonah said the fund will divest from direct investments in coal companies as it evaluates ways to manage ...