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Sunsuper hires investment manager from Mercer

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
... short term, without compromising long-term expected returns." "While prospective returns in unlisted assets such as private equity, infrastructure and unlisted property have come down, we continue to find opportunities across the globe in these asset ...

Pension fund eyes Fairfax Media

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
A Canadian pension fund has made a play at acquiring selected Fairfax Media assets, joining forces with private equity firm TPG as part of an investment consortium. Fairfax confirmed today that the board of the $175 billion Ontario Teachers' Pension ...

Global manager acquires Australian tech firm

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... manager took the majority stake in a large Australian provider of specialist medical software. IFM Investors, via its private equity business, acquired Genie Solutions, a software business established in 1995 with about 50% penetration across Australian ...

Investment group takes majority stake in global advice firm

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... and has expressed further plans for its Australian expansion. In the past, Focus has received strong backing from private equity groups Centerbridge Partners, Summit Partners and Polaris Partners. These firms, along with "certain wealth management affiliates ...

New CFO for Charter Hall

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
... Harrison said Proutt is a results-oriented finance executive who has extensive global property, infrastructure and private equity experience. "His considerable leadership experience in financial management, transactions and equity markets will be a great ...

Chi-X Australia boss departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
... time to the CXA business in this interim period." Chi-X Australia, which was acquired in January 2016 by global private equity firm JC Flowers & Co, is the second biggest trading platform in Australia after the ASX.

Sovereign wealth fund growth steady

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... fixed income. Sovereign funds are increasingly investing in alternatives, with the report showing 61% investing in private equity and 63% investing in real estate and infrastructure. Despite the slowed growth overall, 51% of sovereign funds experienced ...

Pension fund embraces managed accounts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... sought by the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund to manage a separately managed account comprising global private equity, infrastructure and real estate investments. The SMA would hold global, diversified private equity funds with various strategies ...

First Super halts private equity investments

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
First Super will make no new investments in its private equity program as its existing $100 million private equity portfolio is under review. This is being done, the fund said, due to concerns about poor labour practices exhibited by companies in which ...

Super fund private equity demand growing

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
Superannuation funds are shunning traditional asset classes and increasingly turning to private equity opportunities, the latest key market insights from law firm MinterEllison show. In the last 12 months superannuation funds have ramped investment ...