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New Quantum reveals Nasdaq listing plans

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2023
Bondi-based digital wealth management platform New Quantum has signed a business combination agreement with Canna-Global Acquisition Corp to become a publicly listed company in the US. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Canna-Global, New Quantum will now ...

Family offices look to infrastructure for alpha

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
Family offices are increasingly allocating to infrastructure and shunning more risky alternatives such as venture capital and hedge funds, a new BlackRock report shows. Infrastructure will be a pivotal alpha-generating strategy for family offices this ...

Italian private credit fund brings unique offering down under

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2023
Muzinich and Co is rolling out its MLoan fund to Australian investors, expected to be available in July. MLoan, which replicates Muzinich's parallel lending strategy launched in 2018, invests predominately in private European senior secured, floating ...

Boutique co-founder jumps to AustralianSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
One of the co-founders of a shuttering boutique manager is taking on a new role at AustralianSuper. At the same time, one of the fund's portfolio managers is joining a sovereign wealth fund. The $260 billion superannuation fund has added Megan Talmage ...

Wendy Norris quits Future Fund

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2023
The Future Fund will need to reshuffle its investment team after the sudden resignation of the deputy chief investment officer. Deputy chief investment officer of change and Innovation Wendy Norris has quit Australia's sovereign wealth fund after ...

Future Fund revisits actively managed equity investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023
Future Fund chief executive Raphael Arndt has reassessed the sovereign wealth fund's pivot away from actively managed equity investments. Arndt told the Australian Financial Review Alpha Live Conference that active Alpha-seeking strategies in the ...

APAC investors cut PE allocations by 50%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2023
Private equity and venture capital aggregate transaction value fell by 45% in the region, excluding Japan, in the first quarter. According to S&P Global Market Intelligence the drop from last year's US$14.7 billion to US$8.09 billion in Q1 2023 comes ...

Australian Retirement Trust names investment strategy lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2023
Damian Lillicrap, ART's head of strategy for the QSuper portfolios, will depart the fund after 13 years. His departure follows the appointment of Andrew Fisher as head of the investment strategy for both the super savings and QSuper portfolios. ...

Yarra Capital awards admin, custody mandate

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2023
Apex Group has been appointed by Yarra Capital Management to support its new $100 million private capital fund. The Yarra Private Capital Discovery Fund, launched in October last year, is a diversified portfolio of holdings in high growth potential ...

Pengana establishes capital markets arm, hires

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2023
Pengana Capital Group has launched a new, dedicated capital markets division and appointed Philip Schofield to head it up. Schofield will be the managing director of the new Pengana Capital Markets division which aims to connect sophisticated investors ...