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Institutional investors' risk appetite trends down: State Street

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026
... well as market liquidity and valuation concerns drove a more moderate risk stance by the month's end. The Institutional Investors Indicators showed that overall allocation exposure to equities continued to rise to their highest since October 2007, while ...

Federated Hermes enters local wholesale market

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2026
... access to the trade finance asset class for the first time, which Federated Hermes has offered to global institutional investors for over 15 years. The new strategy leverages trade finance's ability to diversify investors' portfolios due to its limited ...

Rapid AI adoption leads to heightened private market engagement: Nuveen

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2026
With almost all institutional investors leaning into artificial intelligence (AI) in some form, they're also driving capital into private infrastructure investments, including data centre buildouts powering AI growth, a survey found. Nuveen's annual ...

Multi-boutique expands to Australia, seeks partners

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2026
... Australia and is on the lookout for strategies it can introduce to its global network of family offices and institutional investors. Founded in 2018 by Thomas Gent, Charles Bamford and Alexander Pay, the firm began raising capital in Asia and the Middle ...

Federated Hermes expands Asia presence

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2026
... as the firm look to deepen relationships with private banks, family offices, wealth intermediaries and institutional investors across the Asia Pacific region. Federated Hermes said the move reflects the business's focus on wealth and retail distribution ...

Super funds, instos shun ETFs, retail dominance prevails

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
... exchange-traded funds (ETFs) market is failing to capture the big money from superannuation funds and institutional investors as retail investors' dominance reigns supreme. Surpassing $330 billion in total funds under management (FUM) at the end ...

Sovereign funds, instos raise $217m for Qld space tech developer

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2026
A group of institutional investors, including various super funds, and the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC), Australia's sovereign investor in manufacturing capability, have formed a conglomerate to raise more than $217 million for ...

Active fund managers endure fee pressures, dominate mandates: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2026
... several asset classes during 2024. The report captured mandates run by 329 global investment firms and 180 institutional investors. Collectively, they represent US$784 billion in assets under management (AUM) and earned US$1.9 billion in total. Public ...

NGS Super appoints Robeco to manage two new mandates

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2026
... investing, Robeco is experienced in offering enhanced indexing and sustainable fixed income strategies to institutional investors, NGS Super said. Leveraging this expertise, the fund said Robeco will assist in offering attractive alternatives to passive ...

State Street boosts digital asset access with new platform

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2026
State Street has launched a new digital asset platform as it looks to broaden institutional investors' access to the asset class. The new platform enables State Street to continue to develop "core products" like tokenised money markets funds (MMFs) ...