Fisher Funds set to be biggest KiwiSaver PE player
Fisher Funds has is planning to invest $1 billion of KiwiSaver funds into private equity.
Fisher Funds has earmarked $1 billion of its KiwiSaver funds to be invested into private equity over the next few years. The fund manager, which has $17 billion of KiwiSaver funds, has invested some funds into private equity already but is changing its strategy.
Up until now it has invested locally using the likes of like Movac, Pioneer and Direct Capital. Now it is planning to invest much more ...MORE»
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Harbour spins out private credit portfolio as a stand-alone fund
Providing investments in private credit to retail investors is still a fledgling opportunity in New Zealand, although Harbour Asset Management started putting toes in the private credit market about seven years ago.
The private credit portfolio, which accounted for about 7% of the assets within the Harbour Income Fund, has now been spun out into a stand-alone fund which has been established so that it can be distributed to retail clients, although Harbour isn’t doing so currently.
The seed money for the new fund contains 93 loans, which have delivered a consistent cash rate plus 4%.
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