AsianInvestor team

Allen succeeds Mike Wilkins who will retire in 2026; Matt Dellit joins ART as ethical investment portfolio manager; Brighter Super taps three senior execs; and more.

Indonesian sovereign wealth fund Danantara lodges $1 billion bid for land near Mecca's Grand Mosque; Kazakhstan plans a $500m-1bn crypto reserve fund; Future Fund and QIC become full owners of clean energy developer Tilt; and more.

Rose Kerlin becomes deputy CEO at the super fund, while Peter Curtis takes on the newly-created position of chief transformation officer; New Zealand's SWF NZ Super is planning to appoint five directors; Aware Super's CEO Damian Graham is to join Challenger as CIO; and more.

Australian SWF's value has grown to A$261bn ($171bn) since its establishment in 2006; Canada's pension fund OMERS will dismiss its entire Asia buyout team as part of a strategic reassessment of its private equity operations; Singapore's GIC is reportedly seeking to sell up to $1bn of its private equity funds' holdings; and more.

Simon Warner succeeds Australian super fund's outgoing CIO Damian Graham; Indonesian SWF Danantara hires former GIC execs Daniel Lim and Weihan Wong as investment directors; Australian Food Super taps ex-Fidelity Richard Dinham as CIO; and more.

Temasek-backed Seviora Holdings and Azalea Investment Management have partnered with Korea’s Samsung Securities to expand Korean investor access to global private markets; Japan’s Dai-ichi Life Insurance has invested 100 million yen in CraftBank.

Indonesian SWF taps Nadine Zamira Syarief as senior vice president of sustainability; Australian super fund Rest promotes Marina Pasika to interim head of private markets; Equip Super commences search for new chief; and more.

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC accuses Nio and its top execs of artificially inflating revenue and misleading investors; South Korea's pension fund NPS is on track to post its first annual loss on foreign alternatives since 2020; The UK government will hold high-level investment talks with Australia's largest pension funds; and more.

Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund ex-CIO Eiji Ueda will lead Apollo's APAC operations; Allianz promotes Ritu Arora to India country head; Future Fund hires Kay Stuart to lead energy transition; and more.

Canadian pension fund La Caisse is seeking infrastructure, credit and real estate investment in Asia Pacific; Abu Dhabi's SWF ADQ is aiming to secure a $4 billion syndicated loan from Greater China banks; China's basic pension insurance fund doubles its assets; and more.

Adam Murphy, the private equity lead, and Tim Unger, senior portfolio manager of sustainable investments, are departing from Australian Retirement Trust; Rest Super is searching for a deputy CIO and head of private markets as Simon Esposito steps down; FWD appoints Craig Tunstall as interim CRO; and more.

Australian superannuation fund partners with Goodman to establish a $1.3bn logistics platform in the US; Future Fund discloses investments in major weapons manufacturers; Japanese pension funds follow GPIF's impact investing shift; and more.