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Super moves: Future Fund, WTW

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... Simpson, who leads the dedicated, responsible investment team. The second recruit has been appointed director of portfolio risk. Gupta was previously an investment manager with HESTA, where he focused on portfolio construction and risk. "With the recent ...

Age-based super strategies could add thousands to retirement savings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... powerful role to play in improving long-term outcomes, whether by supporting better contribution habits or managing investment risk dynamically. While age-based personalised strategies incorporate financial goals and risk tolerance, lifecycle investing ...

DeepSeek, Alibaba: Silver linings for emerging markets strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... an emerging markets investor Whiting takes the geopolitical risks that comes with the territory in her stride. "Political risk is part and parcel of emerging markets investing. What investors have to understand is that there's an element of subjectivity ...

ASFA, EY release guidance on CPS 230

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... prudential standard, CPS 230. CPS 230 will come into effect on July 1, making super trustees responsible for operational risk management of third-party providers. ASFA said a key component of its guidance document involves increasing industry awareness ...

Future Fund bags a piece of Transgrid

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... chief investment officer Ben Samild said the investment in Transgrid aligns with the $240 billion sovereign wealth fund's risk and return objectives and will help safeguard the portfolio from higher inflation, interest rates, and currency volatility. ...

MA Financial eyes acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... US middle market presents a compelling opportunity to deploy capital to real world economy businesses while earning strong risk-adjusted returns and benefiting from robust lender protections that are foundational to our credit philosophy. We are excited ...

Nest drops $930m into new IFM Investors fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... and grow the long-term retirement savings of working people, and we're proud to support Nest in unlocking the income and risk-adjusted return potential of infrastructure debt for its 13 million members," IFM Investors head of debt investments, EMEA David ...

Managed funds should be 'prepared to take less'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... outside of a trackable factor in order to stay relevant. "They need to be adding what we'd call proper idiosyncratic risk to the portfolio, which is out of alignment with a general index. And if they're able to do that and capitalise on it, then ...

J.P. MAM slashes recession probability to 30%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... the bond market could start to rally from here. In fixed income, we're also long high yield, so we prefer to take some risk in high yield," he said. In essence, Stewart believes it is important now more than ever to hold a diversified portfolio. ...

Size of super impacting capital markets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... of investment management. "That is something to keep an eye on. That is another form of vertical integration, which is a risk when you have all that capital chasing all the big stocks, you get more and more value concentrated into the large cap stocks," ...