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HESTA pushes for expediated advice reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024
HESTA has reported a "real shift" in how its members want to engage with their superannuation, leading it to urge the government to release tranche two of the Quality of Advice Review reforms. The $89 billion industry fund noted a strong demand for ...

APRA warns entities on adequacy of backup systems

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024
APRA has reminded its regulated entities of the need to remain vigilant when it comes to cyber resilience, identifying the use of data backups as a weak spot. In a letter to all APRA-regulated entities, the regulator highlighted areas of weakness that ...

Brookfield bids for majority stake in Neoen

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2024
Brookfield and its institutional partners have lobbed a bid to acquire a 53% majority stake in French renewable energy company Neoen from current owners, including Impala, the investment vehicle of French entrepreneur Jacques Veyrat and his family ...

Preqin launches new term intelligence tool

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2024
Preqin has announced the launch of a new tool named Term Intelligence, which introduces one of the largest searchable databases of Limited Partner Agreement (LPA) terms globally and enables enhanced private fund negotiations. Preqin said alternative ...

BlackRock has most valuable brand, study finds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2024
BlackRock has the world's most valuable brand in asset management, while Public Investment Fund (PIF) takes the title among sovereign wealth funds. That's according to a global ranking of brand strength and brand value conducted by Brand Finance. ...

BT Panorama launches first-of-its-kind private market managed account

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2024
BT has launched the Drummond Private Markets Separately Managed Account (SMA) on the BT Panorama platform, offering high-net-worth (HNW) clients access to a portfolio of private equity, private debt, and real assets. BT head of managed accounts Zac ...

Super fund engagement peaks among members with $250k+ balances: Report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2024
An Investment Trends report has identified a clear inflection point for member engagement with superannuation funds. The 2024 Super Member Engagement report, based on a survey of 10,886 respondents, provided an analysis of member attitudes, satisfaction ...

REIT returns to come back strong: Expert

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2024
... Platforms and Tesla) and take a more equal weighted approach to looking at the market, the US equities market has been flat. The tech sector has done very well, everything else has done okay and real estate has done less than okay," Kruth said. "Real ...

EQT Mid-Market Growth Fund exceeds target

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
The Baring Private Equity Asia EQT Mid-Market Growth Partnership (MMG fund) has held its final close at $2.4 billion in total fund commitments, of which $2.1 billion is fee-generating. The raise more than doubled the fund's original target size of $1.1 ...

ASIC places stop orders on Trademax Australia

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024
ASIC issued two interim stop orders to Trademax Australia after it found the broker was relying on a poorly designed questionnaire which retail investors were able to attempt multiple times to determine they were in the target market. The business is ...