Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 111 - 120 of 628 results for "Private Markets"

Can IPOs ever recover? Experts aren't sure

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... ASX having displayed a "good regulatory mindset" in revitalising the listed environment, opportunities from the private markets continue to drag initial public offerings' (IPOs) down. In a panel at the Citi Investment Conference 2025, Pacific Equity ...

Superannuation system quality stagnates: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... requirements, these encourage investments by pension funds into a broader range of assets, including infrastructure and private markets," the report said. Citizens' long-term confidence in their pension system is eroded when governments either "deliberately ...

Fortitude launches Small Cap PE Fund

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
... have increasingly embraced semi-liquid evergreen funds to access alternative investments. Brookman noted that private markets have become a staple for large professionally managed portfolios and through this fund individual investors can get the same ...

MSCI launches global framework for private assets

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2025
... Stanley Capital International (MSCI) have launched MSCI PACS, a new proprietary asset classification framework for private markets. MSCI PACS was designed to streamline organisation, comparability and consistency to private market assets, from private ...

ART private equity lead heads for Middle East

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
... specialist has moved away from the Australian superannuation sector. Rest Super deputy chief investment officer and private markets head Simon Espo has also quit the local super fund sector to join buyout heavyweight CVC Partners. Murphy's departure ...

Rest Super deputy CIO lands new gig

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
... Super will say goodbye to one of its top investment leaders after Simon Esposito resigned from his role as head of private markets and deputy chief investment officer. The $93 billion superannuation fund for retail workers, confirmed it is currently ...

ETF adoption 'intensifies': VanEck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... behalf of clients. Bitcoin remains the most popular digital asset among financial professionals, Van Eck said. In private markets, 60% of financial advisers currently allocate, with single private market funds and listed vehicles being the most popular ...

Super Moves: ANZ Staff, Aware, Equip, ART, VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
... welcomed Stefan Brett to its London office as valuation manager, reporting to Michael Wright, senior manager of private markets control based in Sydney. Brett is tasked with leading the independent valuations of the fund's direct property and infrastructure ...

Ex-Qantas Super private markets lead lands new gig

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
... services, and will work with clients on investment strategies and wealth management. At Qantas Super, Chen led private markets investments across private equity, real assets, venture capital, and impact. He brings over 18 years of experience in financial ...

Hamilton Lane sets up global venture capital fund

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
... venture-focused evergreen products globally, allows clients to participate in the most inaccessible part of the private markets," Hamilton Lane head of global client solutions James Martin said. With approximately $986 billion in assets under management ...