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UK pension giant eyes Australian timber

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
... alongside Nest, meeting our high bar for responsible investing - they've demonstrated they want to be good stewards of the environment and the forests, and the communities around the forests. "We believe the importance of preserving natural capital will ...

Former wealth management chief ousted from financial services

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024
... built on trust and integrity" to achieve superior outcomes in a challenging and uncertain economic and investment environment.

ASIC proposes cash equity clearing and settlement rules

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2024
... effective market functioning. "We consider these proposed rules as foundational requirements to establish a regulatory environment that is open to and facilitates competition emerging in the clearing and settlement of cash equities," the paper said. ...

UniSuper's environmental option returns -16%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2024
The fund's Global Environmental Opportunities (GEO) option returned a dismal -15.96% in FY24, but chief investment officer John Pearce says the growth themes remain intact, adding it's on a more solid footing than in FY21 when returns soared ...

QIC replaces real estate managing director

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024
... said. "Michael and the team steered the portfolio through the destabilising impacts of COVID-19 and the complex market environment in the years following the pandemic. He also led a number of significant redevelopments at our assets in line with evolving ...

CalSTRS creates Total Fund Management division

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2024
... future of California's public educators. Separately, Chan highlighted three "dramatic shifts in the current investing environment" that necessitated the Investments Branch accelerating its development of a more resilient, flexible, and dynamic approach ...

Maple-Brown Abbott sells to Antipodes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2024
... Pinnacle's institutional-grade fund infrastructure and global distribution capabilities, provides a stable and focussed environment for the MBA teams to continue delivering for clients well into the future," Findlay said. "In partnership with the ...

Insignia Financial looks to slash redundancy entitlements

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
... arrangements is counter-productive to what we hope to achieve through negotiations, which is to foster a positive work environment," Angrisano said. She added that earlier this year thousands of Insignia workers signed an open letter to Hartley, calling ...

Rest awards private equity mandate to TowerBrook Capital

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2024
... into the future, such as education and human capital development, food and agriculture, healthcare and water, and the environment and clean energy," Lill said. "We believe these megatrends will present investment opportunities for our two million members ...

Equip Super returns 9.23% to members

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2024
Equip Super has revealed its Balanced Growth option achieved a return of 9.23%, and its Growth Plus option delivered 12.12%. Equip Super chief investment officer Andrew Howard said despite a challenging global backdrop, rising interest rates and ongoing ...