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US investment giant hires Australian insto head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
The asset management business of one of the largest life insurance providers in the world is furthering its Australian distribution footprint with the appointment of a head of institutional relationships. Cameron Sinclair joins PGIM, the Prudential ...

US investment giant builds out Sydney team

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
The private capital arm of a $1 trillion US investment manager has set up shop in Sydney with a local investment team. Pricoa Capital Group, a subsidiary of Prudential Financial's investment management business PGIM, already has a $3 billion portfolio ...

PGI appoints institutional sales director

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2016
Principal Global Investors (PGI) has appointed Michael Gaffney as director of institutional sales, Australia. Gaffney joins PGI from nabInvest, where he served as an investment specialist with the institutional distribution team. Prior to that, he held ...

MySuper fees force super fund to exit high return strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... The requirement to charge low fees under MySuper has forced one superannuation fund to exit a Principal Global Investments (PGI) strategy that had returned 13% over five years. PGI chief executive in Australia Grant Foster said that the super fund pulled ...

Asset allocation is over, investors chase returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... "bondification" of equities, a global report found. The 2015 CREATE-Research report commissioned by Principal Global Investors (PGI) found that 70% of institutional investors chase returns, not asset classes. Only 10% disagreed about this statement. ...

PROFILE: PGI chief executive Grant Forster

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
Principal Global Investors (PGI) chief executive Grant Forster's first job at a Woolworths supermarket was hard work. He remembers long eight-hour shifts packing fridges, stacking shelves and assisting customers. "It taught me it was an area I didn't ...

Principal fund upgraded by Lonsec

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... deliver lower volatility of returns." Forster said the upgraded rating not only recognised the fund but also the capability of PGI's global equities offering.

PGI expands global real estate team

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2014
Principal Real Estate Investors, part of Principal Global Investors (PGI), have expanded its global real estate team adding two portfolio managers. Shern-Ling Koh and Julian Mittag will be based in Singapore and be responsible for identifying investment ...

PGI updates fixed income fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
Principal Global Investors (PGI) is looking at the next generation of fixed income products and has adapted its Global Credit Opportunities Fund to make it more flexible for Australian investors. "Investors are rotating out of a more traditional type ...

Investors move to real assets after GFC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... from sovereign debt and showing a preference for infrastructure and direct property, the annual Principal Global Investors (PGI) CREATE Report found. The ageing population and a global move by governments and corporates to get out of the "pension business" ...