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Preqin expands local team

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2021
... particular venture capital, private debt, investment benchmarking and ESG. "We see more headroom for growth and maturing of alternative assets, driven by a consolidation of supers and increasing openness to international exposure." The hires take Preqin's ...

Mercer bolsters alternatives team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2021
... has appointed an alternatives investment director for the Pacific region after seeing increased client interest for alternative assets in the region. Marcus De Kock joins from Mercer UK where he was a senior investment strategist in the Institutional ...

Praemium to sell international business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2021
... yet, Praemium says it has received strong, unsolicited interest from several parties. Praemium said it believes an alternative owner of the business would simplify it, "better serving the interests of its clients and better advancing the career opportunities ...

FASEA scraps three-month rule

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
... Council for Educational Research (ACER), the exam administrator, will contact the impacted July candidates to provide alternative options for their July sitting. Some 12 exam sittings have been conducted to date. May exam numbers show that of the 1894 ...

Lying rife in life insurance applications

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
... life cover or who are underinsured are more likely to draw on welfare. The report said life insurance provides an alternative, self-funded source of support for people and therefore can have a direct impact by reducing welfare costs.

Jameson Capital launches fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
The Melbourne based alternative asset management firm has secured funding from investors to launch a special situations real estate fund. Jameson received $25 million from two European cornerstone investors to launch the fund. The fund will invest into ...

Life insurance drives economy: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2021
... life cover or who are underinsured are more likely to draw on welfare. The report said life insurance provides an alternative, self-funded source of support for people and therefore can have a direct impact by reducing welfare costs. "Life insurance ...

Alphinity adds to global equities team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2021
... able to establish and embed," Palmqvist said. "Importantly, their complementary, diverse backgrounds bring new and alternative perspectives that will enrich discussions as we work though our well-established investment process." The appointments come ...

Hostplus announces board shakeup

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
... links to the coal industry. Independent director Peter Collins, employer directors Mark Robertson and Mark Vaile, and alternative employer director Neil Randall have exited the board of the $66 billion super fund. The announcement comes after Vaile stepped ...

Aussie investors optimistic about returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
Australians hope that their diversified portfolios will continue to achieve double-digit returns as the pandemic shifts the economy to recovery phase, a new survey finds. Aussie participants in the 2021 Natixis global survey said COVID-19 has not dampened ...