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Nuveen reaches $650m in commitments for local RE debt strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... long-term investment in this space, Nuveen said. The strategy also includes waste reduction and energy consumption, climate risk analysis and social aspects to structure green loans or sustainable linked loans where applicable. Nuveen head of Australia ...

Fidelity International launches first global equity SMA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... firm's proprietary systematic investment process, informed by both fundamental and quantitative research, alongside integrated risk management. It's managed by a research and portfolio management team that includes Sydney-based portfolio manager Matt ...

Super funds' private market assets grow to $400bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... September 2024. "Over the long-term, funds with more illiquid investments such as unlisted infrastructure have experienced higher risk-adjusted returns, which suggests they have captured a return premium for investing in these assets," the paper read ...

ASIC sues Australian Unity for TMD failure

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... Unity's failure to review the questionnaires completed by prospective investors exposed people who invested in the fund to the risk that it was not appropriate for them and to potential financial loss. Product issuers must take reasonable steps to ...

Financial Standard names Investment Manager of the Year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... highlight investment managers and investment products that have demonstrated exceptional performance in terms of returns and risk controls. According to Rainmaker Information, the publisher of Financial Standard, investment leadership isn't only ...

State Street's plan for power, product, partnerships

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... said. There may be, however, other ways that investors can seek higher fixed income yields, perhaps taking different types of risk within those investments to gain greater yield. "We've been looking at how we can create some opportunities in floating-rate ...

Super funds to take stock of information security controls

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... stronger controls are required. APRA said it expects multi-factor authentication (MFA) or equivalent controls for all high-risk activities, including changing member details, withdrawals, benefit payments/transfers/rollover requests and investment switching ...

Regulators note advances in life insurers' practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... disclosure and marketing materials, though has since noted progress. The regulators said life companies need to strengthen their risk management and compliance assurance around re-rating practices, which it noted led them to revisiting past premium increases ...

Lower interest rates conducive for bigger risk appetite, small caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... fall, small caps are poised to reap from the current macroeconomic backdrop and investors increasing their appetite for more risk, a fund manager says. Janus Henderson portfolio manager Nick Sheridan predicts the tide is turning for small cap stocks ...

ECB drops interest rates by 0.25%

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... investment and consumption. A deterioration in financial market sentiment could lead to tighter financing conditions and greater risk aversion and make firms and households less willing to invest and consume," the Governing Council said. Furthermore ...