RBC Dexia has picked up a new mandate from Standard Life Investments to provide global custody, investment administration and shareholder services to the company’s new Global Absolute Returns Strategies Australian Trust (GARS).
Announcement of the mandate came at the same time as Standard Life Investments said it had made the GARS solution available to Australian institutional and wholesale investors.
It said the product had already secured $75 million from a prominent institutional investor.
Dan Farmer, chief investment officer of MLC Asset Management, has detailed how its super fund allocations have evolved and whether the fund will consider investing in bitcoin.
Australia’s superannuation capital has been positioned to play a larger role in south-east Asia’s economic development under a new government-backed deal.
Superannuation funds have become the dominant force behind Australia’s private markets boom, fuelling unprecedented growth and reshaping manager operations.
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock has said the central bank sees private demand picking up over the next year, taking over from public demand.