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Fidante manager closes $400m industrial water fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2016
Fidante Partners-affiliated real assets investment manager Resonance has made the third close of its industrial water infrastructure fund. Resonance Industrial Water Infrastructure Limited has received $400m in commitments from six institutional investors ...

Macquarie partners to acquire real estate sales platform

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2016
A consortium of investors including Macquarie subsidiaries, 77 Victoria Street Trust and Sandrift have partnered to acquire an ASX-listed real estate sales and administration platform. Pending shareholder approval, the consortium will acquire all the ...

CBA's wealth head moves to new EGM role

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2016
CBA has appointed a new executive general manager, Commonwealth Private. Marianne Perkovic was previously executive general manager advice, overseeing CBA's aligned advice businesses. She joined CBA in 2010 as general manager distribution for Colonial ...

Nikko hires regional sales manager from BlackRock

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2016
Nikko Asset Management has appointed a new regional sales manager for New South Wales and Queensland. Thira Ngoeun joins Nikko from BlackRock, where he was vice president - research relationship manager. Prior to that, he was a model portfolio manager ...

EG partners with leading Japanese homebuilder

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2016
Real estate manager EG Funds Management has settled its second, $33 million joint venture with a leading Japanese homebuilder. Under the terms of the JV, Daiwa House Group, its Australian subsidiary Cosmos Australia and Sumitomo Forestry will acquire ...

Cbus signs new Paris ESG commitment

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2016
Cbus is the first Australian signatory of the Principles of Responsible Investment's new Global Statement on Investor Obligations and Duties. The Principles of Responsible Investment, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and The ...

Telstra acquires Blue Sky fund assets

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2016
A Blue Sky Private Equity fund has sold its majority share of a business to Telstra. The business, Readify, was founded in 2002 and provides large Australian companies with custom software development, deployment and consulting services. Blue Sky provided ...

Pan-Tribal makes key accounts hire from BT

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2016
Pan-Tribal Asset Management has appointed a new key account manager for New South Wales. Mark Aufderheide joins Pan-Tribal from BT Financial Group, where he was a key account manager. Prior to that, he spent 19 years at Asgard after holding several ...

AMP Capital urges voters to keep China fund open ahead of EGM

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
AMP Capital has released the explanatory memorandum for the July 28 extraordinary general meeting for the China Growth Fund (ASX:AGF), urging unitholders to vote to continue the fund with enhancements. The memorandum comes after LIM Advisors, the activist ...

CFSGAM fixed income team loses three senior managers

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
Three senior members of Colonial First State Global Asset Management's fixed income team have left the company. Head of global fixed income and credit Tony Adams, head of rates Annette Mullen and senior portfolio manager Francois Kong departed in June. ...