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NGS Super taps Robeco for major equities mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2023
... low-carbon, enhanced indexing mandate will see Robeco responsible for more than 20% of the super fund's international equities investments. NGS Super chief investment officer Ben Squires confirmed to FS Sustainability the mandate is for approximately ...

abrdn terminates funds amid transition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2023
... of its sustainable solutions. The abrdn Sustainable Australian Equity Fund and abrdn Select Sustainable International Equities Fund will both be shuttered. The fund manager said the decision follows a review of its product range. On the $42 million Sustainable ...

Pengana establishes capital markets arm, hires

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2023
... Prior to joining Pengana, he was an executive director at Canaccord Genuity Australia. He has also served as head of equities at Goldman Sachs Australia. Pengana Capital Group chief executive Russel Pillemer said the firm is delighted to have secured ...

Australia survives global pension rout

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2023
... to the average of the seven largest pension markets (32%). Also, Australia has a proportionately higher allocation to equities (51%) compared to the average of the seven largest pension markets (42%). Since 2002, equity allocations among the largest ...

Magellan profits down 67%

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2023
... reduction in FUM over the 12 months to December 31 and challenging market conditions, creating headwinds for allocation to equities. Despite the results, Magellan chief executive and chief investment officer David George said the group now has a well-defined ...

HALO acquires UK fund manager

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023
The purchase of London-based Resilient Funds Management is set to fast-track the equities research and software firm's entry into UK and European markets. The deal, funded by capital raising during HALO's IPO, marks a material milestone for ...

Cboe Australia chief exits, successor named

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023
... most recently as global co-head of equity trading. She also worked as head of Asia Pacific fixed income and Australia equities trading, and head of trading for Australia and New Zealand. Prior to joining AllianceBernstein in 2001, she worked as an equity ...

Reporting season may prove dramatic: UBS

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2023
... that the ASX200 is already up 6% year to date (YTD) at a forward price to earnings of 14.9x vs long-run avg. 14.5x. "Equities look fully valued in light of an increasingly challenging outlook for the domestic economy, and an earnings cycle that may have ...

Women the future of advice: Netwealth

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2023
... commonly known and available investments, creating a significant skew in their portfolio to asset classes such as Australian equities. It further identified over half of women over the age of 18 care deeply about environmental issues (59%) and social ...

ESG impacts on US pension funds tested

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2023
... Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick announcing that the Missouri State Employees' Retirement System (MOSERS) has sold all public equities managed by BlackRock. In June 2022, the MOSERS Board of Trustees directed staff to require BlackRock to abstain from ...