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With investments in everything from music royalties to litigation financing, international private markets manager Northleaf is exploring a “robust pipeline” of deals Down Under.

Hostplus has topped the keenly anticipated performance charts for balanced super funds for the year to June, as well as the past 10 years, SuperRatings has confirmed. Only three funds showed positive returns for the 12 months.

“When it comes to super, all the evidence points to the more you pay, the less you get. There’s lots of reasons for that, the most fundamental of which is that active management really struggles to outperform the market.”

Qantas Super has made more green moves across its portfolio by tipping $50 million into a new fund targeting companies keyed to the tidal wave of investment into emissions reduction technologies.

There’s no end in sight for the pain in equity markets, and investors are rushing for the exit. But Australian equities offer a bright spot.

While value has been the winner of the recent market rout and growth the loser, a zealous adherence to either style could see managers burned by economic downturn.

Super fund data companies are rushing to beat deadlines for June 30 figures, with heightened interest from industry participants and members. The median balanced fund was minus 3.3 per cent, SuperRatings said.

The performance test for Choice products has been paused, and the Albanese Government has launched a sweeping review into the Your Future, Your Super (YFYS) reforms. So what comes next?

The investment arm of State Street has forecast a bonanza ahead for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment service providers as the sector explodes into the mainstream. In a new report on the phenomenon, State Street Global Advisors says the ESG “solutions space” is likely to expand rapidly in five key areas as investment managers,…

Rest has flashed its sustainable and private markets credentials with a stake in AMP Capital’s schmick redevelopment of 50 Bridge Street. Rest has taken a one-third stake in AMP Capital’s redevelopment of the AMP Tower – now badged Quay Quarter Tower – at 50 Bridge Street in Sydney. Around 95 per cent of the office…

Calvert Research and Management has seen its decarbonization mandate with Rest expanded to the fund’s Australian equities portfolio The $68 billion Rest has expanded its enhanced responsible investment mandate with Calvert Research and Management (headed up globally by CEO John Streur, photo at top) to include a carbon reduction tilt that will cover its entire…

A punishing, indiscriminate sell-off has left opportunities lying on the floor. After a 13-year “anti-value phase”, the style is coming back into style. It seems that value is back – not just in a sputtering short-term rally that will soon be dispatched by rejuvenated growth stocks, but in a new cycle that US-based Pzena Investment…