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In-house investment bears fruit for AustralianSuper

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk has flagged expanding the fund's internal investment team to manage more than half of its rapidly growing asset base. Australia's largest superannuation fund has previously said it is aiming to manage between ...

IFM Investors and Samsung partner for infrastructure fund

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
An Australian institutional investment manager is partnering with Korea-based Samsung Asset Management to form a global infrastructure debt fund. The US$480 million fund will be jointly managed by IFM Investors and Samsung Asset Management to invest ...

Bentham hires AMP Capital analyst

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... in the firm's credit research team. In his role Smith was also the main port of call for analysis on public private partnership assets. Bentham managing director Richard Quin said Smith's "wealth of experience and deep understanding of both domestic ...

AMP Capital acquires stake in desalination plant

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2016
... Partnerships. Funded by the AMP Capital Community Infrastructure Fund (CommIF), VDP was delivered as a public private partnership (PPP) and is the largest desalination plant in the Southern Hemisphere. VDP is a rainfall independent source of drinking ...

Popularity of annuity bonds set to soar

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... indexed annuity bonds, which can offer higher-than-expected payout levels." Predominantly issued by Public Private Partnership infrastructure projects, IABs are long-date, low-risk investments that offer investors a stream of cashflows made up of principal ...

AMP Capital appoints social infrastructure director

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... since 2010 in asset manager roles within the current fund, which invests in an unlisted portfolio of public private partnership social infrastructure assets located in Australia and New Zealand. "I am delighted that we have been able to promote and recognise ...

AMP Capital buys Sydney hospital

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... Capital has closed a deal to buy Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital and Community Health Services Public Private Partnership (PPP) Project from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Under the agreement, the asset manager will own the hospital until October ...

ICAC grills Sinodinos on $20 million inducement

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... a $10 to $20 million commission if Australian Water Holdings (AWH) won its bid to participate in a public private partnership. Answering questions at the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) yesterday, Sinodinos, who was chair of AWC at the ...

Calls for Sinodinos to "step aside" amid ICAC allegations

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... and a promise of a further 2.5% of the share capital in the event that the government approved an AWH public private partnership (PPP) proposal. "It's quite transparent that Mr Sinodinos' true role in Australian Water Holdings was to open lines of communication ...

PC calls for overhaul of public infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
The Productivity Commission (PC) has recommended a "comprehensive overhaul" of Australia's public infrastructure following the release a draft report on the topic. The report, which runs for nearly 600 pages, covers issues such as funding new projects ...