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HESTA managers improve on gender diversity

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
According to HESTA, diversity at its external managers shows women's representation improved in the last two years but remains a long way from parity. HESTA surveyed 70 of its external managers in December 2017 and then again in December 2019 before ...

FPA to manage $1.5m scholarship mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
The federal minister for women has awarded the Financial Planning Association of Australia a mandate to deliver $1.5 million worth of scholarships. The scholarships, which are part of the Women's Leadership and Development Program, aim to assist more ...

Aware Super awards $30bn mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
Aware Super has appointed an index solutions provider to take care of its passive equity and fixed income mandates. State Street Global Advisers will now manage about $30 billion in passive strategies for the $145 billion fund. The appointment follows ...

HESTA awards mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
One of Australia's largest super funds, $60 billion industry fund HESTA, has selected a software-as-a-service platform to manage its finance operations. TechnologyOne was selected by the fund to streamline financial reporting, with the aim of allowing ...

Principal Real Estate wins SMA mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
BT Investment Solutions selected Principal Real Estate Investors as the underlying active manager for its Global Property MPS Fund. The fund is structured as a separately managed account has currently over $1 billion of funds under management. It has ...

BlackRock wins monumental mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... reportedly one of the biggest transfers of retirement savings to date, BlackRock has won the first external investment mandate for two of the largest defined benefit schemes in the UK. BlackRock will be the outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) ...

State Super rejigs defensives

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
State Super has mandated two managers, as it allocates to Australian investment grade corporate credit and global investment grade structured credit. State Super manages about $42 billion in assets, of which about 20% is in defined contribution schemes ...

Research on education standards and morals launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
Research that is aiming to determine how formalising educational and ethics requirements impact the moral development of financial advisers is calling for participants. The Western Sydney University is canvassing financial advisers to take part in research ...

Russell wins mandates worth $285m

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
... superannuation plans. Some 2500 new employees have joined the master trust. Byrnecut Group, a contract mining company, awarded the mandate via Resource Super, a division of the Russell Investments Master Trust. Russell Investments managing director of ...

GAM hires from BlackRock

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... regarded in the industry and I'm excited to be working with her again." The appointment comes as GAM takes on a new mandate from an unnamed, "prestigious" institution to invest in insurance-linked securities. With the Australian business' assets ...