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WA energy plant adds Canadian owners

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
A Canadian investment firm now has an ownership stake in a Western Australia multi-fuel cogeneration power plant, marking its third investment down under. Fengate Capital Management has announced the financial closure on its equity investment in the ...

Western AM says credit to be positive in 2016

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
Western Asset Management believes 2016 will be a positive year for credit investors because it is a compelling investment in the current economic climate. The global fixed income manager's deputy chief investment officer, Michael Buchanan, said in a ...

Whitehelm Capital acquires 49% stake in GE business

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... retain a 50.1% stake in the business. It generates steam and electricity and was commissioned in January 2014 in Collie, Western Australia. It has a contractual arrangement with South32 Limited's Worsley Refinery. "While many managers have been focusing ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... alternative asset requires a different culture and a different mindset," Sowerby says. Originally from Warren, a small town in western New South Wales, it made sense after growing up on his parents' cotton farm for Sowerby to study Agricultural Science. ...

Towers Watson wins public sector fund mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... Graeme Miller, said the firm considered it a privilege to be appointed. "As the largest public offer superannuation fund in Western Australia and one whose approach is focused on making a real difference to the lives of its members in retirement, there ...

Australian Unity strengthens Diversified Property Fund

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... 30% industrial, 33% retail and 37% office property, with assets spread across New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia. For the year to 30 June 2016, the Fund is forecasting a distribution range of between eight and 8.3%. Since taking ...

BlackRock adds to distribution team

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... portfolios," said Langlands. Team members James Biggins and Leila Romanos will support McDermott in looking after clients in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania.

CIO says low bond market rates to continue

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
Western Asset Management chief investment officer Ken Leech believes the bond market will have reasonably low rates for longer than market participants thought at the beginning of 2015. Leech said the normalising of interest rates by the US Federal ...

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... Before the super journey began Wade graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Applied Communications) from the University of Western Sydney in 1991. Although trained as a journalist and professional writer, she wasn't interested in that career and moved into ...

J.P.Morgan makes Australian appointment amid global restructure

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
J.P.Morgan Asset Management has appointed a key account manager for Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. Business development manager Joseph Tobias will join the funds business as key account manager to strengthen the firm's presence ...