AustralianSuper’s erstwhile head of equities will head to the construction industry fund as its new head of portfolio construction amidst a slew of C-suite departures.
We’re in the Palm Pilot era of artificial intelligence, according to EFG Asset Management, and nobody knows what’s coming next. That hasn’t stopped the big tech companies becoming a portfolio construction headache in the here and now.
Plenty of big institutional investors are finding that the total portfolio approach eats strategic asset allocation for breakfast. But as their organisations become more and more complex, shifting towards a new way of investing is getting harder.
Impact is one way to diversify away from the big tech stocks that rule the index without missing out on the transformative themes that put them there in the first place, according to T.Rowe Price.
The desire to open up its membership base was one of the drivers behind CSC’s attempt to merge with AvSuper, but the change in government and a new legislative agenda tripped it up.
Mergers can consume the day-to-day life of a fund for years. But the investment decisions made during the process determine whether the new fund – and its membership – will thrive from day one.
Superannuation funds and other financial services providers are trying to combat greenwashing in their own communications amidst changing regulatory expectations. Equity Trustees wants to help them out.
The industry funds’ unlisted property manager has slashed the valuations of its core property fund as well as a single asset office trust amidst a slow-moving commercial property downturn.
The $74 billion New Zealand Super has shot the lights out with a chunky one year return and is now looking to “scale and optimise” its organisation as it eyes a projected doubling in size over the next decade.
The $13 billion industry fund has seen a significant turnaround in member outcomes since it rethought its “technically outstanding” but conservative investment strategy and has topped Chant West’s growth ranking for a second year running.
