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MA Financial readies first LIT for launch

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
MA Financial will soon launch its first listed investment trust (LIT), the MA Credit Income Trust (ASX:MA1). MA Financial has so far secured $171 million in commitments for MA1, which is expected to launch on the ASX on March 5. The fund is set to offer ...

Partners Group promotes local staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
Partners Group co-head of private debt for Asia has been promoted to senior investment leader of the firm's private market royalties business. Sydney-based Krish Vaswani has been with the global private market asset management firm since 2016 and ...

The highest paying jobs in financial services: Data

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
There is a high demand for financial services professionals in Australia, according to the 2025 Robert Walters Salary Survey. The three roles employers are most eager to fill are operations analysts, investment analysts and credit analysts, the survey ...

Macquarie AM splashes billions on Applied Digital Corporation

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) has pledged US$5 billion to NASDAQ-listed Applied Digital Corporation, which provides high-performance computing (HPC) data-centre solutions. MAM will initially commit up to US$900 million to operate the Ellendale HPC ...

Research digs into HNW investment preferences

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
According to new research from Praemium, high-net-worth (HNW) investors with stronger balances are typically tipping more into alternatives. The report comes as advisers eye the asset class along with artificial intelligence (AI) and technology as key ...

Family offices turn to start-ups, M&As: PwC

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
Family offices have increasingly shunned real estate in favour of direct company investments over the last decade, a new report from PwC reveals. The annual study found family offices' appetite for companies that are start-ups, and merger and acquisition ...

Managed funds industry winners and losers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are still winning the contest for net flows against unit trusts, according to Rainmaker Information's 2024: The year in wealth management webinar. ETFs attracted around $2 billion in net inflows a month last year whereas ...

M&A and IPO the 'gamechangers' for 2025: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
Providing an outlook for the new year, Fidelity International portfolio manager Casey McLean said M&A and IPO activities will likely increase, noting there are a list of companies anticipated to make the foray into the public markets across the US and ...

Zenith hires from Preqin and Morningstar

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
Zenith Investment Partners has made two new appointments to its business development team - Jim Wang and Doug Hope. Based in Sydney, they will report to Zenith's head of sales, Glenn Boyes. Wang will join the institutional team where he will oversee ...

Schroders shutters local private debt arm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
Schroders has confirmed its Australian private debt division will close, saying its efforts are better directed elsewhere. Schroders Australia is terminating its local private debt strategy, which was launched in 2020 when it established its private ...