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Why a single insto client is a massive business risk

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... piece of the $4.5 trillion superannuation pool and attract the country's growing wealthy population. In July, alternatives fund manager Blue Owl Capital launched a private credit fund to local investors in partnership with Koda Capital. Brandes Investment ...

Aussie executive tapped for top Kiwi job

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
Morningstar's former head of alternatives has moved to New Zealand to run Clarity Funds Management. Craig Stanford has been appointed chief executive officer of the Auckland-based asset manager that runs about $8 billion on behalf of community trusts ...

Super moves: HESTA, Nest, Resolution Life, NZ Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025
... Funds SA chief executive Jo Townsend, is recruiting heads of investment strategy, real assets, private equity and alternatives, and portfolio implementation.

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... "As an adviser, we have to absolutely know the business and their needs and then drive home what we can provide as alternatives if they choose to invest off-farm rather than back into their business." When it comes to living and working on the land ...

Super moves: ART, TCorp, Future Fund, QIC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... Lucas Hartmann as senior portfolio manager. Most recently, Hartmann served as head of equities, fixed income and alternatives at NGS Super for over eight years, where his responsibilities included implementing derivative overlays. Before joining the ...

Australian Ethical Super handed extra licence conditions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... the fund also increased investment fees on several of its options, saying it was due to an increased allocation to alternatives. According to Rainmaker Information data, at December 2024 end Australian Ethical Super used five external fund managers ...

TelstraSuper members caught off guard by Direct Access closure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2025
... member wrote. Another wrote: "This is appalling service to cancel this feature for current members. There must be more alternatives than those presented so far by TelstraSuper and Aware... There could losses in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands ...

Hostplus snares LGT Wealth deputy CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... with LGIAsuper in July 2021. Before joining Energy Super, he spent four years at VicSuper as head of real assets and alternatives and acting chief investment officer for a time. VicSuper merged with First State Super in July 2020 to create Aware Super. ...

Passive strategies show 'higher survivorship' over active: Morningstar

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
... managers have demonstrated intermittent periods of outperformance, sustaining consistent returns above low-cost passive alternatives remains a persistent challenge," the report read. The results found that the top-quartile performers across eight of ...

ART snags TCorp's alternatives head

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... a senior investment executive from NSW Treasury Corporation (TCorp). Matt Dellit has left his position as head of alternatives at TCorp to join the $330 billion superannuation giant. Dellit will take on the role of portfolio manager for the fund's ...