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ANZ platform exec goes to Canadian tech firm

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016
A former platform executive at ANZ has announced he has taken up a senior role at a Canadian technology firm. Dean Hanna was head of platform at ANZ's Digital Innovation and Analytics Lab from 2014 to 2016. Prior to that, he held two other roles at ...

Agriculture ripe for institutional picking

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2016
... there haven't been a lot of funds around for agritech." Offshore interest in Australia's agriculture, particularly from Canadian and European pension funds, has been widely reported. Bennett says analysis of the world's largest agri-related funds highlights ...

WA energy plant adds Canadian owners

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
A Canadian investment firm now has an ownership stake in a Western Australia multi-fuel cogeneration power plant, marking its third investment down under. Fengate Capital Management has announced the financial closure on its equity investment in the ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... far this year. It's not only against them euros and yens, the greenback has also weakened against the Australian and Canadian dollars, the British pound and the Swiss franc, among others. Overall the US dollar index is down 4.1% this year. Perhaps now ...

Infrastructure pricing reshaping investment landscape

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
JANA senior consultant Susan Orr recently told the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) that there is plenty of dry powder among investment managers looking to invest in infrastructure. Yet one of the pitfalls in this environment is the impact ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... February after increasing by 0.5% in the previous month. According to Statistics Canada, the fall in prices charged by Canadian manufacturers and producers was largely due to lower energy and petroleum prices (down 4.1% in the month) and the Canadian ...

International pension funds buy London City airport

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
Three Canadian pension funds and the Kuwait Investment Authority have won the takeover battle for London City airport with an offer of about £2 billion ($3.9 billion). A consortium made up of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP), Borealis, AIMCo and ...

Instos to increase alternative strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
... estate (47% increase versus 9% decrease), and private equity (39% increase versus 9% decrease). BlackRock said for US and Canadian institutions, the shift towards illiquid assets is occurring as they reduce their allocations in equities. Investors based ...

Industry fund backs US toll road

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... fund was largely put down to a sale of Moto Hospitality, a chain of service stations in the United Kingdom. Meanwhile Canadian pension funds have flagged their interest in Australian infrastructure.

Canadian pension funds keeping eyes on Aussie infra

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
... Port of Brisbane has been listed as one of the more recent success stories among alternative investments by the top 10 Canadian public pension funds. A study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) last month found that Canada's 10 largest public pension ...