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Future Fund muscles past annual target return, lags in March quarter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... Other substantial exposures include $36 billion in alternatives, $33 billion in private equity, $26 billion in Australian equities, and $25 billion in infrastructure and timberland, and $22 billion in credit. Future Fund chief investment officer Ben ...

Cbus chief investment officer resigns

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2025
... already strong investment foundations," Fok said. Gavin will oversee the launch of Cbus' active large-cap Core Australian equities strategy and continue to grow the fund's internal global markets strategies. "It's a tremendous honour to be appointed ...

Nearly $9bn leaves Perpetual

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
... the December quarter. Perpetual Asset Management's AUM of $21.3 billion was impacted by net outflows in Australian equities and multi-asset strategies, whilst fixed income strategies experienced net inflows in the quarter. Trillium's AUM was ...

First Sentier to enter Australian ETF market

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... companies that have strong balance sheets, growing cash flows, and liquidity. First Sentier Investors head of Australian equities growth Dushko Bajic said the firm is pleased to bring LEVR to market, adding it would provide investors with flexibility ...

Cbus plays it steady amid rocky start to the year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
... that's been run in-house for five years, Gavin said, and the idea was to add something "somewhat similar" for Australian equities. As previously reported by Financial Standard, Cbus appointed Cooper Investments veteran Ryan Riedler to the newly created ...

Fitzpatricks names head of product

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... programs." Fitzpatricks recently appointed Russell Investments as its consulting partner amid closing its Australian equities solutions within its multi-asset separately managed accounts (SMAs). Russell was tasked to develop and actively manage a factor-based ...

Macquarie terminates Aussie equity funds

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
... Macquarie Group has terminated two of its equity offerings, saying they've failed to achieve scale. The Macquarie Australian Equities Fund and the Macquarie Active Plus Equities Fund were terminated late last month. Macquarie said both did not "have ...

AustralianSuper bins WiseTech stake

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
... The fund quietly sold down its remaining stake, letting WiseTech know on Wednesday. AustralianSuper head of Australian equities Shaun Manuell said the fund had been a shareholder and "strong supporter" of WiseTech since its initial public offering (IPO) ...

BlackRock rebalance sparks record-high ETF trades on ASX

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... its model portfolios. The fund manager's annual strategic asset allocation (SAA) slashed its exposure to Australian equities and emerging market (EM) equities between 4.5% and 5%, and upped allocations to European, Japanese, and Chinese equities ...

CFS awards fixed income mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... including a listed infrastructure mandate to ClearBridge Investments for an undisclosed amount. It also awarded an Australian equities mandate to Platypus Asset Management.