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NAB adds to board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021
... was recently acquired by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets for $4.5 billion. He has since been a seasoned venture capital investor and advisor at many Australian companies. He is currently the chair of AirTasker and Swoop Holdings and is a non-executive ...

AMP Capital makes two senior hires

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2021
... transactions in energy infrastructure, retail/mass market, home connection services and upstream oil and gas, and venture capital investments in smart home and distributed energy resources technology companies. Ly left AGL in late 2018 to join Endeavour ...

Australian Ethical overhauls longstanding fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021
... known as the 'High Growth' option, and will begin investing in growth assets including private equity, venture capital and infrastructure, as well as unlisted property assets. The option has traditionally only invested in Australian, international ...

Australian Ethical makes strategic investment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2021
... technology investment fund founded by the CSIRO. Main Sequence welcomed the investment, saying that it will apply venture capital to play a role in solving challenges in health, food, space, and industrial productivity - in line with Australian Ethical's ...

Clime ousts Schafer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
... Bristow leaving to take a break for a few months. Bristow is now the chief executive of Investible, an early-stage venture capital group that provides financial and human capital to help start-ups scale. Clime was contacted for this article.

First Sentier appoints head of people, culture

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021
... Limited, where she led a global team of 150 across 15 countries. Prior to that, she headed up human resources at venture capital firm Eight Roads which she joined from Fidelity (a major shareholder in Eight Roads). "At First Sentier Investors, we see ...

Preqin expands local team

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2021
... equity, real estate, infrastructure and hedge fund investments, and developing quickly in a few areas, in particular venture capital, private debt, investment benchmarking and ESG. "We see more headroom for growth and maturing of alternative assets ...

Super funds back space travel

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
... a consortium backing Queensland-based Gilmour Space Technologies. US-based Fine Structure Ventures, Australian venture capital firms Blackbird and Main Sequence are among the co-investors with the super funds in the latest round of capital raising. Series ...

HSBC makes alternatives push

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... division will comprise HSBC Alternatives Investments (HAIL), including the hedge fund, private markets, private debt, venture capital and direct real estate teams. The unit will be led by current global chief investment officer Joanna Munro, and Munro ...

Aussie PE, VC assets hit milestone

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
Australian private equity and venture capital firms' assets reached a record high of $18.4 billion (US$14bn), according to new research. The Alternative Assets in Asia-Pacific report compiled by Preqin saw a 20% jump in the total capital raised ...