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WA Super awards $20mn mandate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
... move follows social impact investments made by the $53 billion industry fund HESTA, through its partnership with Social Ventures Australia. Earlier this year the fund committed $20 million to help improve housing affordability and sustainability through ...

Adviser cops 262 month jail sentence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... British Virgin Islands to conceal his income. He also hired locals in the area to act as his nominee in numerous business ventures. They would open and manage bank accounts through which Thomas moved the victims' funds in an out of the US, the US ...

FinClear wins trading tech mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... trading application which provides access across ASX and Chi-X markets as well as to CentrePoint and other ASX "dark" ventures. Burrell chief executive Chris Burrell said FinClear TradeCentre has all the features to enable market participants to seamlessly ...

Risk advisory firms merge

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... their respective locations under the guide of current management and board of directors. The group also has 10 joint ventures in place. Early last year, MBS formed a joint venture with HLB Mann Judd to deliver personal risk protection strategies for ...

Super fund commits $20m for housing affordability

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
... consisting of six buildings. The project is a partnership between HESTA, housing organisation Nightingale Housing and Social Ventures Australia (SVA), a not-for-profit that works with partners to alleviate disadvantage. Twenty per cent of the apartments ...

NZ Super Fund invests in hotels

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
... in Christchurch. NZ Super Fund said it intends to acquire and develop additional sites. Under the agreement, two joint ventures have been created. One is to own properties operating as hotels and the other to manage properties and identify future opportunities. ...

Future Fund backs tech startup

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... funding round, of which Future Fund was the lead investor. Other investors include Blue Bear Capital, ABB Technology Ventures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Osage University Partners. The company produces internet of things (IoT) systems which ...

Financial tech firm refocuses strategy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... longer be required. Intiger said it has been in discussions with several parties regarding possible acquisitions and joint ventures that could bring scale and benefits to its operations. However, the company was clear there is no certainty around these ...

Spaceship searches for new chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
... Master Superannuation Plan with the aim of engaging millennials. Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes and AirTree Ventures partner Daniel Petre also back the fund. It currently manages $230 million in assets and has grown to a team of about 40, working ...

Female fintechs make better investments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
... interesting especially given the low percentage of fintechs founded by women overall. KPMG Australia head of high growth ventures Amanda Price said: "This data from the UK reinforces that it is gender bias and workplace imbalance, and not capability ...