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Morningstar widens private credit coverage, kicks off with Metrics

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... heightened scrutiny by regulators into the asset class, with ASIC's recent investigation revealing that private credit fund managers downplay the risks of their products and flout basic disclosures of the state of their investments. Olsen noted that ...

Super moves: ART, TCorp, Future Fund, QIC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... investment teams to assess private market opportunities through a sustainability lens, conducting due diligence on fund managers and co-investments to assess ESG integration and alignment with climate and social objectives. She is also charged with monitoring ...

New funds distribution firm launches

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... for governance and operational support. Designed to connect institutional investors with high-quality investment fund managers, the company seeks to address a significant gap for sophisticated investors seeking global diversification and improved long-term ...

Australian Ethical Super handed extra licence conditions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... alternatives. According to Rainmaker Information data, at December 2024 end Australian Ethical Super used five external fund managers, including Kapstream Capital, Macquarie Asset Management, Man Group, PIMCO Australia, and Infradebt. Combined, they ...

Future Fund rethinks portfolio amid 'greater uncertainty'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
... long-term investment goals." In response, Future Fund said it is investing more heavily in gold, hiring more active fund managers and avoiding fixed-rate bonds. "It was and remains our view that the world going forward will be characterised by deep structural ...

Passive strategies show 'higher survivorship' over active: Morningstar

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
... majority of the segments including large-cap stocks. This contributed to a decline in 10-year trailing success rates of fund managers across most categories. ASX large-cap index represented the biggest category within the study, with 94 strategies maintaining ...

Quant investing bounces back post Trump whipsaw

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
... of the Global Financial Crisis when the equity market collapsed for a substantial period of time, which allowed fund managers to pivot strategies. "The equity market collapsed but trend following pivoted to other opportunities and made exceptional returns," ...

Stay or leave: ASIC's private credit clampdown tests managers

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
ASIC's crackdown on the private credit market has created a 'stay or leave' proposition for some fund managers, a Financial Standard event heard. Speaking at the recent Financial Standard Advisers in Focus event in Melbourne, HMC Private ...

Mercer Investments shutters four options

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
... T. Rowe Price's strategy has about $97.8 million and Wellington's fund has about $146.1 million. Several fund managers are either shuttering their own options or seeing them removed from major platforms. Macquarie Investment Management recently ...

HESTA, Vision Super divest Israeli securities

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
... $2.3 billion in said companies in its MySuper Growth Accumulation option. Many super funds rely on specialist ESG fund managers such as Ausbil and Pendal to manage these options. Pendal offers the Sustainable Balanced Fund, for example, for Insignia ...