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GAM launches alternative investments unit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
GAM Investments has appointed Randel Freeman as co-head and co-chief investment officer its new specialist alternative investments unit, GAM Alternatives, effective immediately. Freeman will work alongside Albert Saporta to build out GAM's alternative ...

QIC invests in Australian biotech start-up

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
... experience which compliments this. "Through the Enterprise Acceleration Fund, we're backing Gelomics' vision to become the new gold standard adopted by laboratories around the world and the jobs this will create for Queensland." Gelomics co-founder and ...

Global X launches currency hedged version of FANG+ ETF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
... "transformative" and "long-term structural trends." Global X also flagged that it plans to launch a currency hedged physical gold ETF later this quarter. Earlier this year, the company launched its Global X Gold Bullion ETF (ASX: GXLD) which aims to ...

BlackRock acquires Preqin in $4.8bn deal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
BlackRock has agreed to acquire Preqin for £2.55 billion or approximately US$3.2 billion ($4.8 billion) in cash. BlackRock said bringing together Preqin's data and research tools with Aladdin's complementary workflow capabilities in a unified platform ...

Carlyle, Goldman Sachs give $1.6bn boost to Apex

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2024
Carlyle Group and Goldman Sachs will inject more than $1.66 billion into challenger administrator and custodian Apex Group to support its growth ambitions. The commitments have been made by Carlyle's global credit business and Goldman Sachs Private ...

Goldman Sachs names new head of Australian equities

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2024
Goldman Sachs has appointed Mark Davis as managing director and head of Australian and New Zealand equities. Davis will lead the equities team and work closely with regional leadership to drive the strategy for expanding the client franchise in Australia ...

Real estate fund manager chief executive departs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024
The chief executive of Eildon Capital Group is exiting the ASX-listed real estate fund manager on June 30. After two years in the top job and as joint company secretary, Laurence Parisi is leaving after the board "carefully evaluated the position of ...

What's keeping the Treasurer up at night?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2024
Treasurer Jim Chalmers said at the Morgan Stanley Australia Summit in Sydney yesterday that a key goal of the Budget was to fight inflation in a way that doesn't damage an already weak economy. "... the primary focus of the Budget was to tackle inflation ...

NZ Super Fund names acting chief investment officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024
The Guardians of NZ Superannuation (Guardians) has appointed Alex Bacchus as acting chief investment officer. Bacchus joined the super fund in 2009 and has held various roles in the risk and asset allocation teams. Since 2014, he has led the super fund's ...

Retail funds drive down admin fees: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
Expensive retail superannuation funds have finally become competitive with industry funds after bringing down their administration fees, a new analysis by KPMG shows. KPMG found that admin fees for MySuper products have come down from 0.33% to 0.26% ...