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Elston expands institutional reach

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
Elston Asset Management has hired a former BlackRock senior manager to help lead its push into the institutional market. In her new role at Elston, Stacey Sinclair will focus on building the institutional presence of the business and supporting the ...

Prime Super bolsters investment team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
Prime Super has appointed a manager of investment strategy, hiring from Australian Retirement Trust. Alex Proimos worked for three years at the country's second-largest superannuation fund as an associate portfolio manager of investment strategy. ...

VFMC farewells asset allocation lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
Following the departure of VFMC's head of portfolio strategy and asset allocation Leanne Taylor, senior portfolio manager Kuek Chyuan Low has stepped into the role in an interim basis. Taylor resigned from the role she held since 2022. She told ...

Super moves: Aware Super, Australian Retirement Trust

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
Aware Super has named Anna Young-Ferris as head of stewardship and senior manager of responsible investment. Reporting to head of responsible investment Liza McDonald, she'll lead the stewardship team's advocacy and engagement efforts. Young-Ferris ...

Ascalon snaps up consulting talent

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
Ascalon Capital has bolstered its consulting team with two senior appointments from major investment research houses. The investment and asset consultant has welcomed David Boyle from Lonsec as a partner and Sean Currie from Zenith Investment Partners ...

Beware risks in private markets: bfinance

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
While access to private markets for wealth managers has evolved in the last decade, so too has the level of risk involved, a report states. According to bfinance's Private Markets for Private Wealth: Democratisation vs Retailisation report, 61% of wealth ...

Commonwealth Super awards sustainable credit mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2025
Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC) is the seed investor in two new sustainable credit funds from UK-based manager Osmosis Investment Management. The fund manager has launched the Osmosis Global Credit UCITS Fund and the Osmosis Global High ...

QIC to sell partial stake in US renewable energy financing platform

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2025
Canadian pension fund La Caisse will acquire a stake in the QIC-backed Renewa, a renewable energy land financing company located in the US, for US$200 million ($307m). QIC acquired 100% ownership of Renewa in 2022. Texas-based Renewa operates as a platform ...

BlackRock sets new AUM record

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2025
BlackRock's assets under management have ballooned to a record US$12.5 trillion in June, jumping 18% over the last 12 months. BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink said the fund manager's sustained growth has been powered by its whole portfolio ...

Most Hostplus options achieve double-digit returns

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2025
Hostplus returned close to 11% to its MySuper members in FY25, while its popular Indexed Balanced option delivered just over 12%. The Hostplus Balanced (MySuper) option returned 10.81% to members, while the Indexed Balance option turned in 12.02%. Hostplus ...