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Grant Thornton appoints private wealth head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
Grant Thornton strengthened its private wealth advisory capabilities with the appointment of an investment manager to lead its Australian private wealth business. Former Myer Family Company client director, private wealth and family office Edward Draydon ...

Australian property love affair cannot please everyone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
The just-released RBA Financial Aggregates report for May show that Australia's credit state of affairs continues. Total private sector credit growth inched up from 4.9% in the year to April to 5% last month. While this put a stop to the four straight ...

Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
It appears Australian equities will end the final day of FY2016-17 with an EOFYS (end of financial year sale) gauging from the heavy selling on Wall Street and Europe overnight. The S&P 500 index closed 0.9% lower last night (the Nasdaq even more, down ...

Family offices partner for major US acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
Australian and US sophisticated investors partnered to acquire a suite of large-scale multifamily real estate assets in the US. The Domus Multifamily Real Estate Fund (Domus), along with Los Angeles-based Geringer Capital and Australian private wealth ...

Limited super investment in VC holding Australia back: AVCAL

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
Limited investment by super funds in Australia's venture capital sector is holding back the growth of innovation, says the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. According to a new research report, institutional capital - predominately ...

Penklis returns with $275m private equity fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2017
Quadrant co-founder George Penklis, who stepped back from the industry in 2014, has returned to launch a new private equity fund in partnership with three other professionals. Odyssey Private Equity, which recently concluded a $275 million institutional ...

US investment giant builds out Sydney team

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
The private capital arm of a $1 trillion US investment manager has set up shop in Sydney with a local investment team. Pricoa Capital Group, a subsidiary of Prudential Financial's investment management business PGIM, already has a $3 billion portfolio ...

HESTA investment manager appointed to PRI

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017
... transparent incorporation of environmental, social and governance into credit ratings and analysis. Other recent Australian PRI appointees include AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk to the Asset Owner Advisory Committee, and chair at HESTA Angela ...

MYOB appoints new director

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
An independent non-executive director joined MYOB's board on January 1. Fiona Pak-Poy is currently a member of Innovation and Science Australia's Biomedical Translation Fund Committee as well as a director at SIRCA and iSentia. She has previously held ...

Australian private equity driving M&A

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
Australian private equity has boosted M&A activity by 16% over the last year, according to MinterEllison. New research from the law firm shows the healthcare sector was the biggest contributor to this, with private equity activity increasing significantly ...