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Australian Retirement Trust appoints new chief risk officer

ANDREW MCKEAN | FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024

Australian Retirement Trust (ART) has appointed a new chief risk officer that's set to start in March 2025. The new chief risk officer, Darryl Burke, was previously with Colonial First State in the same role. Burke will lead ART's risk and compliance ...

Nuveen raises over $400m for real estate debt strategy

MATTHEW WAI | THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024

... real estate debt strategy with investments of over $400 million from the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) and Temasek. The strategy, leveraging Nuveen Real Estate's global debt platform, focuses on institutional senior ...

BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard sued over climate stance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024

Texas and 10 other Republican-led states are suing BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard, saying their climate activism violated antitrust laws and caused reduced coal production and higher energy prices. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a case ...

Gensler to leave SEC in January

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024

Gary Gensler, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), will leave the regulator on January 20. The SEC has announced Gensler will depart at midday on 20 January 2025, coinciding with the commencement of President-elect Donald Trump's ...

HMC Capital launches DigiCo REIT

ELIZA BAVIN | FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024

HMC Capital has officially launched its new Digital Infrastructure REIT (DigiCo) on the ASX with an enterprise value of $4.3 billion in data centre assets in Australia and the US. HMC said due to significant demand from institutional cornerstone and ...

Private equity, real estate spearhead unlisted assets demand

KARREN VERGARA | FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024

... vein as other APAC investors. Some 42% of these investors allocate to Australia and New Zealand, while 49% choose North America, and 44% prefer the UK and Ireland. UniSuper head of private markets Sandra Lee, who took part in the research, said the super ...

HMC Capital makes $400m acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN | MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024

... assets in Australia and is in exclusive due diligence on an additional $1.6 billion of data centre assets located in North America. These acquisitions will seed an ASX-listed DigiCo Infrastructure REIT 2 with $4 billion or more of AUM. The fresh acquisition ...

Trump tariffs cause for concern among Australian investors

ELIZA BAVIN | THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024

... people of today - or, more accurately, a clear majority of them - are afraid, angry, insular, resentful and self-absorbed. America is, sadly, no longer a 'beacon of democracy' or a 'shining light' to the rest of the world. "Australia, and other countries ...

US election: Global investors fear inflation boom

ELIZA BAVIN | THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024

... Management chief global strategist Seema Shah said that while US markets saw major gains, equities in Europe, China and Latin America trended lower as concerns over Trump's proposed trade tariffs weighed on sentiment. "While the short-term market implications ...

US election to add to inflation woes: Experts

ELIZA BAVIN | TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024

As the countdown begins to one of the most contentious election cycles in US history, experts are weighing in on how either a Republican or Democratic win may impact markets. US shares were lower on Monday (local time) ahead of the election, as polls ...

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Funds SA appoints chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN | 4:06PM

Funds SA has appointed a new chief investment officer, who will join from Hostplus, to commence in February 2025.

Australian Retirement Trust appoints new chief risk officer

ANDREW MCKEAN | 4:05PM

Australian Retirement Trust (ART) has appointed a new chief risk officer that's set to start in March 2025.

UniSuper has 'some work to get on with' on cyber front: Chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | 12:47PM

UniSuper's leadership team has touched on how the fund is strengthening its operations following the extensive system outage in May this year.

Super framework, SMSFs conducive to financial abuse: Inquiry

KARREN VERGARA | 12:34PM

Lax superannuation laws make it too easy for perpetrators of domestic violence to access victims' retirement savings, while the current framework for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) enables financial abuse to flourish, a parliamentary inquiry found.

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