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AustralianSuper hires investment lead in Europe

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2023
... private markets. Astorri sits on the board of ISPT, the $20 billion property fund set up by Australia's largest pension funds. He began his career in the Bank of England, first in the wholesale markets supervision division (covering the gilts market) ...

Infrastructure an asset class for all seasons: IFM

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2023
... expects this growth trend to continue for reasons such as the resilience of infrastructure to macro swings, and pension funds and other institutional investors, in aggregate, remaining underweight the infrastructure asset class relative to their long-term ...

Global investors look to strike gold: Study

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2023
... The research collated in April surveyed investors responsible for $307.5 billion assets under management across pension funds, private equity and venture capital firms, family offices and sovereign wealth funds. It found 93% of investors expect direct ...

APAC investors cut PE allocations by 50%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2023
... be on track for a down year, S&P Global said. The trend however is not exclusive to the region, across the globe pension funds ended the first quarter slightly under-allocated to private equity compared to their targets. An indicator of the challenging ...

Australia survives global pension rout

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2023
... that future systemic risks to assets will stem from environmental, societal, and geopolitical factors. "While many pension funds are focused on the long term, this situation presents short-term challenges which cannot be ignored," she said. "The main ...

ESG impacts on US pension funds tested

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2023
There is no difference between investment returns for US state pension funds in "blue" states that might be more likely to integrate ESG investment principles and "red" states that are more likely to ban ESG investment strategies, according to Rainmaker ...

SWFs shrink for first time ever: Report

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2023
... sector dropped by a total of US$1 trillion, according to Global SWF. Similarly, the Global SWF report says public pension funds (PPFs) reduced assets by US$1.3 trillion, with the following worsening of funding ratios. However, despite the loss, the data ...

ETF sentiment continues to grow: BetaShares

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2022
... delivered a true-to-label investment experience for all types of investors, ranging from some of the largest global pension funds to an individual that is investing for the first time," he said. "More Australian investors than ever before have turned ...

More alpha gains through ops

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2022
Growth in fund complexity and managing assets in-house has triggered intensive efforts by pension funds to beef up their operational and support functions. JANA principal consultant and head of operational consulting, Jo Leaper, says there is a growing ...

MaxCap boosts capital raising team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2022
... He brings about 14 years' experience in commercial real estate capital markets. At CBRE he has been dealing with pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and family offices in Singapore, fundraising for the Australian office sector. At MaxCap he is charged ...