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Qantas Super appoints deputy investment chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
Qantas Super - the Mascot-based fund for employees of Australia's national air carrier - has promoted Chris Grogan to deputy chief investment officer and head of defensive assets. Grogan has been with Qantas Super since July 2012 and was most recently ...

Industry funds' illiquid assets scrutinised

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023
The Australian superannuation system allows investors to shift between options and funds daily, raising critical questions about liquidity. Despite requirements under SPG530 - Investment Governance, public disclosure on liquidity stress-testing is relatively ...

Supercharging Australia's climate investment action

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
Australia is one of the world's savviest and highest-performance institutional investor markets, and the way it has embraced climate active and ESG investment strategies is about to be supercharged. After almost a decade-and-a-half of climate and ...

Rest to sell Endeavour stake

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
Rest will divest its 12.6% interest in Endeavour Energy to a fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management (Macquarie), already an investor in the company. The industry super fund acquired its stake in Endeavour Energy in 2017, when the NSW government ...

UniSuper spends $1bn on European mobile towers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2023
UniSuper has made its first direct infrastructure investment in Europe, securing a 5% stake in mobile towers business, Vantage Towers. Vantage Towers operates 83,000 sites across 10 European markets, including Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Vodafone ...

BlackRock to list low-cost property and infrastructure ETFs

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2023
BlackRock will launch two new core ETFs, the iShares Core FTSE Global Infrastructure (AUD Hedged) ETF (GLIN) and the iShares Core FTSE Global Property ex Australia (AUD Hedged) ETF (GLPR). The ETFs will be priced at 20 basis points (or 0.20%), an amount ...

Private markets boost Macquarie AM results

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2023
Private markets buoyed Macquarie Asset Management (MAM), but the green energy sector dragged its performance in the year to March 2023. MAM saw funds under management of $870.8 billion rise 10% year on year but failed to replicate this growth across ...

Dexus buys more of Royal Adelaide Hospital

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2023
Three funds managed by Dexus have taken a combined 30.58% stake in the Royal Adelaide Hospital Public Private Partnership (PPP). The funds include the Dexus Community Infrastructure Fund1 (CommIF), the Dexus Healthcare Property Fund (DHPF) and the AMP ...

More misfortune for Magellan

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2023
Once again, Magellan Financial Group has experienced a drop in its total funds under management (FUM), falling a further $0.5 billion. It saw net outflows of $2.4 billion, comprising net retail outflows of $0.4 billion and net institutional outflows ...

HUB24 to buy myprosperity

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2023
The platform provider has agreed to take over 100% of myprosperity for $40 million, aiming to do so by the end of June. Melbourne-based myprosperity specialises in client portals for financial advisers and accountants and will be operated as a separate ...