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ASIC turns up the heat on private markets

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... intervention. ASIC defines private markets as "private capital funds, non-bank financial lending and investments made by institutional investors directly into asset classes such as private companies, infrastructure and debt". It categorises private markets ...

Solutions to avoid concentration risk: Scientific Beta

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... increasing dominance of giant technology stocks poses "significant challenges" for superannuation funds and other institutional investors, as index solutions provider Scientific Beta touts two possible approaches to better manage concentration risk. ...

Super fund investment in US to skyrocket

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... their portfolios, manage risks and deliver healthy long-term returns for their members," the report said. "Large institutional pension funds are now investing nearly half their assets in international markets, with nearly $800 billion currently invested ...

MLC wary of but not opposed to bitcoin

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... MLC is open to the possibility of investing in bitcoin in the future, but now is not the right time. "Like many institutional investors, we remain in the 'not now', rather than 'not ever' to bitcoin camp," Farmer said. "Wind the clock back a few years ...

Alpencrest ramps up expansion, signs Aussie affiliate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
... set up the business as a third-party marketer/placement agency, that the hardest part would be to find interesting institutional-quality investment managers. It turned out that was the easy part," he told Financial Standard. "We actually have a fairly ...

Perennial beefs up sales team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
Perennial Partners has made three key appointments to bolster its distribution team and better support its institutional and wholesale marketing efforts. Scott Curtis joins as director for private wealth and family office, based in Sydney. Bringing ...

Super moves: Aware Super, CareSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
... and expertise to capture opportunities from the energy transition opportunity, the greatest focus of today's institutional investors," said infrastructure portfolio manager Jiren Zhou. Separately, Caresuper continues to beef up its responsible investment ...

BlackRock names regional insto client lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
BlackRock's high-profile George Maltezos.has broadened his role to lead institutional client business for South East Asia. This is the third new role for Maltezos during his two years at the world's largest asset manager. First, he was head ...

ART appoints chief commercial officer

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
... platform, Beam. Before taking on the acting chief commercial officer job, he spent five years as head of corporate and institutional relationships. McKay has over 25 years' experience in the financial services industry in corporate super, retail ...

Schroders launches new active ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
... structure dimensions, including subordinated debt. It combines an attractive yield with the capital protection of institutional grade fixed income, Schroders said. "HIGH is an actively managed credit strategy that seeks to deliver returns of 2.5-to-3% ...