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Schroders to bring private equity fund to Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
Schroders, best recognised in Australia for its fixed income and equity strategies, is gearing up to bring a private equity fund to local investors later this year. The new fund will use a fund-of-fund structure to invest in externally-managed private ...

PIMCO a hit with Aussie instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
PIMCO has emerged as the manager that won the most institutional money in Australia for the year ending September, according to data from more than 5000 mandates compiled by Rainmaker Information. The global manager raised $3.7 billion -- most of it ...

Google to pay ATO $481.5m

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... Australia," the ATO said. "That's $7 billion in sales booked, and the appropriate profit of these activities taxed, in Australia for the first time and locked in for the future. It has also led to the resolution of cases which had over $1 billon in back ...

Westpac served class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2019
... sought, Westpac said. The bank will defend the claims, it said. In November AUSTRAC applied to the Federal Court of Australia for civil penalty orders against Westpac over systemic non-compliance with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism laws ...

Former CBA exec takes over at Optus

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... phase of 5G-powered growth," Sock Koong said. "Allen's standout tenure at Optus has made it the go-to operator in Australia for great connectivity, innovative services and exciting content. Given the tremendous growth of digital services in Thailand ...

CBRE snaps up future Zurich headquarters

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
CBRE Global Investors has acquired the future headquarters of Zurich Australia for $350 million. The North Sydney building is still under construction and being developed by Zurich Insurance Group to house the headquarters of Zurich Financial Services ...

No plan to cut out advisers: SPDR chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2019
... it was updating its direct-to-investor portal and separately, entering superannuation. State Street has been in Australia for close to two decades now and launched the first ETF which, until recently, was the largest ETF in the country. During this time ...

International investors chase Australian real assets

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2019
... in the number of real assets deals announced. Investors are seeking stable returns and they are looking towards Australia for its potential to offer long-term, low-risk opportunities." Perpetual Corporate Trust general manager Glen Dogan added the conditions ...

Vanguard launches three new active funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... external managers, as it kicks off a lineup of active funds in Australia. The company has offered factor-based funds in Australia for roughly the past two years but this is its first foray into fundamentally-managed active funds. The Vanguard Active ...

Former Equip chief joins Cbus

KARREN VERGARA, KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019
... become general manager and head of risk management. He previously managed internal audit risk consulting at KPMG Australia for eight years. Walker joins from Victoria's Department of Health and Human Services, where she was director of customer support ...