1st April, 2024
Aware Super is Australia’s third largest profit-for-member industry superannuation fund, with AU$ 175 billion (US$ 114 billion) under management on behalf of 1.2 million members and a brand-new office in London. We had the pleasure of speaking with its CEO, Ms. Deanne Stewart, about the fund’s strategy, future objectives, female leadership and how the industry needs to evolve to meet future retirement needs.
29th November, 2023
The UK is shaking off post-Brexit anxieties and attracting a slew of FDI in its infrastructure investment from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and two of Australia’s biggest pension fund investors, Aware Super and IFM.
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26th September, 2023
Australia’s US$106 billion Aware Super fund has started recruiting for its planned new London office, hot on the heels of Canada’s Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan’s (HOOPP) announcement that it is opening an office in the British capital as part of its plan to diversify its geographical exposure and expand its holdings in alternatives.
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11th September, 2023
Australian Super has made one of the biggest deals in data center investment by any state-owned investor, with its EUR1.5 billion (US$1.6 billion ) investment in Vantage Data Centers.
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19th June, 2023
Since 2020, Global SWF has issued an annual assessment of the efforts of state-owned investors, including sovereign wealth funds and public pension funds, around governance, sustainability, and resilience (GSR).
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5th December, 2022
Australian super fund HESTA has boosted its AUM to nearly A$70 billion (US$57 billion) with more than 970,000 members following its merger with the smaller, 60-year-old Brisbane-based Mercy Super fund, which has 13,000 members.
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8th March, 2022
Today is International Women’s Day and, once again, we have studied in detail the female representation at State-Owned Investors, including SWFs and PPFs. Diversity and inclusion are becoming key parameters in ESG reporting, and funds are putting a lot of effort in recruiting and retaining people of all genders, races and backgrounds. We observe large disparities in the composition of the workforce of the world’s major SOIs
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3rd December, 2021
Yesterday AustralianSuper successfully completed the acquisition of Club Plus Super, which will feed the largest superannuation scheme in the country with 60,000 new members and US$ 2.25 billion in assets. This acquisition does not come as a surprise though, as a total of nine transactions have been announced or completed in the past 18 months Down Under.
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