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Future Fund cautious on risk and return

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
Future Fund chairman Peter Costello is adamant the global investment environment remains risky and offers little return, weighing considerably on the $127 billion sovereign wealth fund's strategy. Announcing a 7.8% return for the 2016 calendar year ...

Future Fund surges to $123 billion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... strengthen the Commonwealth's long-term financial position," said Future Fund Chair, former Commonwealth Treasurer, Peter Costello. Since then, however, its scope has expanded to operate as a de facto sovereign wealth fund insofar as its capital returns ...

Top boutique in first push for new investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... fund each come from different backgrounds. Before joining Paradice, Mitchell worked in the Treasury underneath Peter Costello and describes himself as a macroeconomist. Ng used to be a management consultant for Bain & Company. Portfolio manager Wiemin ...

Budgets with more super tinkering are possible

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... said. The third major lever the government could pull is around capital gains tax. Evans said it was introduced in the Costello years after a lot of lobbying by the venture capital industry. As it became hard to administer it applied to everybody and ...

QIC and Future Fund win Port of Melbourne lease

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016
... defined regulatory regime in a globally scarce infrastructure subsector." Future Fund Board of Guardians chair Peter Costello described the port as "a high quality asset and an important link between Australia and its trading partners." "We're delighted ...

Future Fund ahead of target on tenth birthday

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
... urgent way, but as returns have come down and risks have risen," he said. Future Fund chairman and former Treasurer Peter Costello said: "There will be difficult trading conditions going forward. Returns are at historic lows - looking at 10 and 30-year ...

J.P. Morgan and Future Fund ties at robo-adviser

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
... fintechs. The co-founders of automated investment adviser Six Park have recruited former Future Fund general manager Paul Costello and former Federal Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner to the investment advisory board. Six Park co-founder and advisory board ...

Future Fund keeps powder dry

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
... authorities, having stimulated so much, have less flexibility now to respond to future weakness," Future Fund chair Peter Costello said. "Given this, we have less risk in the Future Fund than we would under more normal circumstances. We keep our objective ...

Death tax would save budget billions: Costello

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
The pre-budget cloud of ideas continues to thicken with Community Council for Australia chair Tim Costello advocating the federal government create an estate duty or death tax. Costello and the Council believe such a tax would generate more than $5 ...

Strength in (A$) weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
... wouldn't be surprised if Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor had that all too familiar (former Federal Treasurer) Peter Costello's smirk on his face as he presided over the bank's first Board meeting this year. I might be being overly too presumptuous ...