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Equip Super awards custody mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2024
Equip Super has selected a new custodian and back-office administrator to replace NAB Asset Servicing. Northern Trust won the mandate to provide asset servicing solutions that include global custody, fund administration and portfolio analytics. It replaces ...

NovaPort Capital team calls it a day

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
The team at small caps manager NovaPort Capital have decided to hang up their boots. A decision was made on May 13 to wind up the small cap Australian equity manager, Fidante told investors, saying the NovaPort team had made the call to close the business. ...

Industry fund merger postponed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
Mine Super and TWUSUPER have reported "significant progress" towards their merger, but it has been pushed back. In a joint statement, the super funds announced that their merger to form TEAM Super has been rescheduled from early 2024 to early 2025. ...

Fidelity shutters, delists funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
Fidelity International is terminating an international fixed interest strategy that failed to scale, as well as delisting a managed fund. The Fidelity Global Short Duration Income Fund focuses on investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds that ...

Private markets demand cools: bfinance

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
Investors' appetite for private market strategies appears to be waning as capital raisings fail to keep pace with the frenzied demand in 2023. According to a new report from bfinance, Manager intelligence and market trends, global private markets ...

Principal launches new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
Principal Asset Management has announced the launch of its new private debt capability and the appointment of Mansi Patel as senior managing director, head of infrastructure debt. Patel will lead the launch and implementation of the new fund, which ...

COVID helped to reduce inequality: Productivity Commission

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
New research from the Productivity Commission has revealed changes to income and wealth levels during COVID-19. "The initial pandemic period saw an unprecedented decline in income inequality. The incomes of lower-income households grew rapidly in relative ...

Another corporate fund bites the dust

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024
The Nissan Superannuation Plan will be wound up on July 31, almost 50 years on from its creation. The Nissan Superannuation Plan was created in 1977 to house the retirement savings of the car manufacturer's employees. It's existed in its current form ...

Spaceship appoints new chief risk officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024
Spaceship has tapped a former ASIC and APRA operative to be its new chief risk officer. Maan Beydoun joined Spaceship this month in the role, following three years in a similar role at employee management software firm Flare HR. He brings over two decades' ...

Seven fund managers scoop up First Sentier mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024
Colonial First State (CFS) flags it will appoint seven new managers to take over several mandates that will be vacated by First Sentier Investments (FSI) following the shock closure of four local investment teams. CFS has said it has been "actively ...