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NZ Super Fund secures stake in Euroclear

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2023
... Additionally, Euroclear chief executive Lieve Mostrey said the super fund will provide the type of stable and patient capital ideally suited to Euroclear's growth strategy. "This is focused on enhancing the value provided to investors, issuers, broker ...

Spire Capital, Oaktree launch wholesale fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2023
... exclusive access to opportunistic credit and special situations. The fund builds on a three-year partnership between Spire Capital (Spire) and Californian-based Oaktree Capital Management (Oaktree) with Spire committing more than $340 million into Oaktree ...

Government must do more after product failures: FSC, SCA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2023
... regime for MySuper products. In doing so, the government should offer members within failed trustee-directed products Capital Gains Tax rollover relief to facilitate the transition to contemporary investment options, he said. The results have also sparked ...

Super funds taking on the climate crisis

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2023
... despite an uptick in global climate finance, current investment levels are deficient. Subsequently, the urgent need to shift capital from high-emission to low or zero-emission investments affords superannuation funds the ability to be 'agents of positive ...

Alternative real estate is on the rise: AXA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2023
... he said. "I'm mentioning that because it's fairly consistent with the kind of allocation a lot of institutional capital investors have to real estate." But he pointed out a significant distinction: in Australia, 50% of the allocation is categorised ...

Zenith chief exits, names successor

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2023
... Macquarie, including three years leading its banking and financial services business in the UK, before then moving to NAB Capital Markets, NAB Asset Management. More recently, he was executive director of ARCO Investment Management. "Now is the time ...

Iress sells MFA business, reports $140m loss

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2023
... due to the current environment and the ongoing transformation process. "We will conduct a thorough reassessment of our capital management framework, including a new dividend policy, while we continue to realise assets, reset our cost base and emerge ...

Equity Trustees to exit UK, Ireland

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023
... pressures that require continued investment," O'Brien said. "This is a prudent move for Equity Trustees to ensure its capital is invested across the group where we believe it can generate the greatest shareholder value. "Equity Trustees remains strongly ...

Equity Trustees combines super, trustee arms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... trustee of Future Super. On the RE front, Blackwattle Investment Partners recently mandated EQT for four funds, while AL Capital also appointed it to oversee its new range of retail funds.

Iress appoints former Pendal veteran

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2023
... player, during which time it experienced a period of exceptional growth. This involved the acquisitions and associated capital raising of material transactions in the UK and US during his tenure. Prior to that, Williamson held the chief financial officer ...