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Igneo acquires Tasmanian logistics firm Strait Link

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 22 DEC 2025
Igneo Infrastructure Partners, the infrastructure arm of First Sentier Investors, will acquire Strait Link, a supply chain logistics firm from Allegro Funds. Strait Link provides a link between Tasmania and mainland Australia through the Bass Strait ...

Aussie executive tapped for top Kiwi job

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... investors," he added. Stanford, who spent many years in Australia, maintains strong ties to the country through the trans-Tasman investor. Clarity Funds is owned by the Investment Services Group, which in turn is 755 owned by Australian wealth management ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
In the book The Lucky Country, the late author Donald Horne provides a piercing assessment of Australia in 1964, stating that its prosperity is derived from good fortune rather than industriousness or ambition. He ruminated about the future challenges ...

Australia's gender pay gap narrows: WGEA reports

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has released the latest Australia's Gender Equality Scorecard. Spanning the past 12 months, the employer census revealed that the national gender pay gap has dropped by 0.7 percentage points (pp) to 21.1%, from 21.8% ...

Alexander Funds bolsters Sydney office with new hire

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
Alexander Funds, the credit income investor, has added a second operative to its Sydney office to boost its distribution team. Oliver Carr joins as a business development associate, reporting to James Curnow, regional manager for NSW, ACT and Queensland. ...

Natixis IM adds distribution leads

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2025
Natixis Investment Managers has added two distribution leads who will respectively focus on institutional and private wealth clients. James Damicoucas joined as director of institutional sales this month. Based in Melbourne, Damicoucas was most recently ...

PE firm sells CyberCX to Accenture

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
Accenture will acquire trans-Tasman cyber security firm CyberCX from private equity firm BGH Capital. Founded in Melbourne in 2019, CyberCX has about 1400 employees and provides consulting, transformation and managed security services, as well as offensive ...

Economic growth has 'moderated': CommSec

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
Western Australia has once again claimed the top spot in the latest CommSec State of the States report, leading the nation's economic performance rankings for a fourth consecutive quarter. South Australia also began 2025 with a bang, climbing from fourth ...

MA Financial gives $200m to legal finance platform

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2025
... dignity. "This marks a pivotal new chapter for our company and the people we support." JustFund has presence across the Tasman with offices in Sydney and Auckland and continues to scale its business with strong institutional support. Aside from MA Financial's ...

Shaw and Partners splashes $63m for New Zealand expansion

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
... The acquisition will strengthen Shaw and Partners' presence across the New Zealand market, supporting its broader trans-Tasman growth, the firm said. ISG's funds under management are fully annuitised, providing a "strong base" of recurring revenue and ...