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The back-office provider formerly known as Link Market Services has struck a deal with the IT consultancy arm of giant Indian conglomerate Tata to upgrade its client offerings.

The industry fund has taken a 49 per cent stake in subscription vehicle provider Splend alongside IFM and other co-investors as it looks to build a 10 per cent exposure to climate solutions in its global portfolio.

After years of powering super returns into the double digits, US equities are walking a tightrope, and one misstep could send them plunging to earth. But the story that put them up there in the first place still holds true.

The $300 billion profit-to-member fund has linked up with Oxford Properties for a portfolio of high-quality European industrial and logistics assets that it wants to expand significantly over the next three to five years.

With two years of double-digit super returns under its belt, Colonial First State’s investment team is taking a hard look at markets and moving money to areas where they think they’ll make more of it.

Orbis’ Stuart Place is riding from Melbourne to the Moon and Back to fund a treatment for the “monster of a disease” that his youngest son was born with. The investment industry is rallying behind him.

The flip in the negative correlation between bonds and equities has revealed that the protections investors took for granted were based entirely on assumption. Now they need to diversify their diversification.

With three separate businesses now combined under the Insignia banner, MLC Asset Management CIO Dan Farmer says his focus is no longer on “fixing problems” but on driving returns – and he’s looking to niche asset classes to do it.

Natural catastrophe reinsurance and music royalties have been big winners for PG3, the family office of the founders of Partners Group, which is now bringing its “highly differentiated” uncorrelated strategy to Australian investors.

European private credit manager Park Square Capital is flying into Sydney in search of institutional flows as super funds super-charge their allocations to the asset class.

The two funds are pressing on with their “merger of equals” after hammering out the new entity’s board and leadership structure, promising complementary capabilities across retirement and advice, as well as fee savings for members.

The $350 billion profit-to-member fund will be trying to rustle up some desk space in its London office as it makes a slew of new appointments and prepares to deploy 70 per cent of new inflows into global markets.