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Iress rejigs leadership team

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024
... Since joining Iress in 2022, Rogers has held several senior leadership roles, most recently overseeing its South Africa and Canada divisions. Prior to joining Iress, he held senior leadership positions at MLC and National Australia Bank, including as ...

'Challenging period' for active managers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024
... across developed equity markets," the report said. "A majority of global equity funds domiciled in the US, Europe, Japan, Canada and Australia underperformed the S&P World Index, with underperformance rates all falling within the range of 70%-85%." The ...

Hamilton Lane adds SCOPE to product lineup

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2024
... loans and intended for investors seeking potential safety and yield. The fund has been available for qualified investors in Canada, Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia for close to two years, and will now be open to investors, including certain ...

Muzinich & Co. partners to launch infrastructure debt strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
... middle-market infrastructure and real asset companies across Australia, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, the UK, and Canada. It can also invest in deals in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and European Union countries, it said. The strategy ...

Genetic test results to no longer hinder life cover

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024
... results in life insurance." Other nations have already banned the use of genetic test results in underwriting, including Canada in 2017. Responding to the news, Council of Australian Life Insurers chief executive Christine Cupitt said the association ...

NZ Super Fund shines bright with standout return

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2024
... with the government expected to start withdrawing money from the fund in 2035 to help pay for superannuation payments. Canada's CPP Investments was closest to NZ Super among state-owned funds that have reported their latest financial year results, with ...

Macquarie AM, PSP Investments sell AirTrunk stake to Blackstone, CPP Investments

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024
Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) and Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) have sold the entirety of their respective interests in AirTrunk to private equity giant Blackstone and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP ...

QIC promotes key private equity staff

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2024
... at CDC Group, an investment firm focused on growth markets. She began her investment banking career at the Royal Bank of Canada in London. Tom Le Brocq moves from analyst to associate. Le Brocq has been with QIC since 2022. He previously worked as an ...

What does the RBNZ rate cut mean to Australia?

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024
... sentiment, saying Australians should only expect a rate cut by the RBA six to nine months after other comparable central banks (Canada, the US, and New Zealand). Robertson said it is imperative for core inflation to dip "closer to 3%" before the RBA ...

What's keeping the Treasurer up at night?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2024
... difficult this is to achieve," he said. "The task of taming inflation has halted growth in Europe, raised unemployment in Canada to its highest level in two years, and progress on inflation has slowed in the US." Last night, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics ...