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QIC adds to global infrastructure team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2019
... managers, taking its total team to 43 employees. Selina Sugiarto joined QIC's London office as an infrastructure investment manager earlier this year. She was most recently an associate director at UBS Infrastructure Asset Management, based in London. ...

AMP Capital starts new team, appoints two leads

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... current role as a partner and head of infrastructure equity, Americas. He also sits on AMP Capital's infrastructure investment committee and has overseen $3 billion of equity investments deployed for the company. Sandys initially joined as a New ...

Industry Super Australia forecasts a rate cut

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... 2-3% range; employment growth may have been shifting towards the public sector; and the wave of strong infrastructure investment of two years ago is past, Anthony noted. He sees the Australian dollar weakening to 0.65 against the US dollar over one to ...

WestConnex among largest infrastructure deals in 2018

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
The WestConnex Motorway ranked among the largest infrastructure projects by deal size globally in 2018, latest Preqin data shows. Backed by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and a consortium that includes AustralianSuper and Transurban, the $9.26 billion ...

State Super CIO exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
... before being shortly promoted to investment chief. Before State Super, Hedley spent seven years at the infrastructure investment arm of DWS, RREEF Infrastructure. He was first as a director of portfolio management and then the head of portfolio and asset ...

Final call for 2019 Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... banking, which might not be seen outside the microeconomic level. Developments such as trade, increased infrastructure investment, increased bond issuance and tax cuts will take longer to impact Chinese consumers and the wider economy. The final factor ...

Super funds defend $5bn infrastructure investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
A consortium including several of Australia's largest superannuation funds will contest allegations from the ACCC that a 2013 purchase of two New South Wales ports breached competition law. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has ...

Superannuation funds ramp up co-investment opportunities

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... teams up with a manager or other superannuation schemes, given the changing nature of Australia's infrastructure investment landscape. Co-investing is attractive because to be able to generate material returns on their overall portfolio, substantial ...

Swiss manager invests in Queensland solar

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
A Swiss asset manager has invested $50 million in a Queensland-based solar energy plant, as it makes it first foray into Australian renewable assets. SUSI Partners is an asset manager based in Zurich that invests exclusively in renewable energy infrastructure ...

Whitehelm targets $2.4tn sector

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... Graham Matthews said: "The Smart City Infrastructure Fund aims at transposing the benefits of long-term infrastructure investment to new business models and innovative use cases. The demand for better infrastructure and services is high and the fund ...