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Chalmers looks to trade super pool for minerals with US

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... especially considering Australia had a population smaller than Florida or California". Bessent added that unlike large sovereign wealth funds, Australia's retirement savings growth was not dependent on particular commodity prices. "That's what I was ...

Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2025
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for the creation of a sovereign wealth fund. The executive order directs US secretary of the treasury Scott Bessent, who was sworn in last week by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh ...

VFMC wraps up leadership changes

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... returns team as a senior portfolio manager. Arriving in 2009, this is his second stint at the $92 billion quasi-sovereign wealth as he worked there between 1994 and 1996. Both leads will report to Aarons in his capacity as head of asset classes. Separately ...

GIC's investment chief to step down

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
GIC investment chief Jeffrey Jaensubhakij plans to step down after almost three decades at the sovereign wealth fund, according to local reports. It is widely expected that deputy group chief investment officer Bryan Yeo will be promoted to the top ...

Goodman Group welcomes Norwegian investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
Goodman Group has welcomed Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) - the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund - as an investment partner in the Goodman North American Partnership (GNAP). NBIM has acquired Canada Pension Plan Investment Board's (CPP Investments) ...

Real Asset Management taps DWS sales exec

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... institutional investment and distribution, including securing a large institutional mandate from a large Southeast Asian sovereign wealth fund last year. "Adam's expertise in business strategy implementation across institutional markets - spanning ...

Sue Brake joins NZ Super, Lisa Gray departs VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... of Australia's former top executives at the forefront of change have become highly influential figures on sovereign wealth fund boards. Sue Brake, former Future Fund investment chief and adviser to Singapore's central bank has chosen a second ...

Macquarie AM puts money in Aussie real estate investment firm

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... Asia-Pacific opportunistic real estate partnership (MREP Asia 1). The fund has a strong focus on pension and sovereign wealth funds across Australia, Canada and the Middle East and targets "strong structural macroeconomic drivers" through a diversified ...

Super moves: Future Fund, Aware Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... strategies to working with the responsible investment team until next July. Chislett has been with Australia's sovereign wealth fund for four years, most recently as senior associate of overlays. In this role, she helps manage the whole-of-portfolio ...

VFMC welcomes two key execs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... made two new senior appointments - a chief people officer and a head of client services. The $92 billion quasi-sovereign wealth fund has named Karen Perkins the permanent head of client services. Perkins was appointed interim head in September when she ...