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Private equity firms to consolidate

A private equity expert predicts that the number of venture capital and private eequity funds in the country could dwindle from 130 to around two dozen in the next two to three years. "Most Australian operations are sub-economic as they have pool funds ...

ING PEAL cashes in on private equity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
ING Private Equity Access Limited (ING PEAL) has sold its entire or part investment at or above the valuation price in a number of companies across three of its underlying funds. Established in 2004, ING PEAL developed a listed multi manager private ...

MillhouseIAG buys Huntley

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
Homegrown private equity fund manager MillhouseIAG Ltd has snapped up boutique fund manager the Huntley Group, enabling the firm to expand its international fund management business. MillhouseIAG founder and chief executive David Millhouse said the ...

Baring Asia pumps $95m in green fuel

Green energy is the new black in private equity after Baring Asia injected $95 million into an energy investment company in China, home to the third largest reservoir of coalbed methane, an alternative fuel source. Baring Private Equity Asia, which ...

PE must work on PR

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
As more institutions invest in alternative assets such as private equity, the sector players have to re-think how they communicate their message under the more intense public spotlight. At a Private Equity & Venture Capital Forum panel discussion, private ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... Queensland Gas Co Ltd release their interim results. In Sydney, the Asian Venture Capital Journal begins its 5th Annual Private Equity and Venture Forum for Australia and New Zealand. It will run for three days. Yesterday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ...

Future Fund continues hiring spree

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2008
... Property, Mitchell Stack, previous Australian country head at Western Asset Management, and Steve Byron, former private equity portfolio manager of NZ Super.

RREEF offloads half stake in DEXUS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... existing investment suite, we will progressively introduce new global and regional real estate, infrastructure and private equity fund of fund investments - including hybrids," Dorrian said. "We will also develop a platform to source Australian infrastructure ...

New era for investment analysts

... been influenced by "the advent of a wide range of alternatives - hedge funds, long/short funds, infrastructure, private equity - and ways to manage portfolio construction in that framework," she said. "Recognition of how huge the equity risk is in these ...

Franklin Templeton allies with Vietcombank

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... has acquired a 49 per cent stake in Vietcombank Fund Management (VCBF), an investment management firm focused on private equity in Vietnam. The remaining 51 per cent of VCBF will continue to be owned by Vietcombank - the Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam. ...