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La Trobe Financial expands executive team

KRISTI CHENG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
Blackstone portfolio company La Trobe Financial recently expanded its executive team with the appointment of three senior banking veterans. With assets under management of $9 billion, alternative asset manager La Trobe Financial announced the appointment ...

Investa Office Fund's Canadian bidder ups the stakes

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
A Canadian real estate group has topped private equity juggernaut Blackstone's bid for the Investa Office Fund. Oxford Properties Group offered to pay $5.60 per share in cash to acquire 100% of IOF, according to company filings on Friday. This is 10 ...

Macquarie acquires Investa Office Fund stake

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... from voting on any of the resolutions proposed by the Investa Office Fund in relation to a possible acquisition by Blackstone. In May, Blackstone submitted an all cash, indicative proposal to acquire the ASX-listed Investa Office Fund. At the time, Investa ...

Investors sharpen watch on RMBS

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... issuers) were acquired by major private equity firms. KKR acquired a majority stake in Pepper Group in October 2017, Blackstone acquired a majority stake in La Trobe Financial in January 2018 and Cerberus acquired Bluestone Holdings Australia in February ...

Industry responds to Dover shutdown

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... high quality and compliant advice business, if your licensee closes it can be painful," he said. Elsewhere, Hamilton Blackstone Lawyers is already investigating the possibility of a class action against Dover on behalf of affected authorised representatives ...

Global investment giant to acquire Investa fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... distribution-adjusted proposal represents a 13.2% premium to IOF's ex-distribution closing price on 25 May 2018. Blackstone has yet to make a decision regarding the future investment management arrangements for IOF, and intends to discuss the prospect ...

Glaucus defends Blue Sky allegations

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
... Glaucus said. Glaucus called on Blue Sky to "match the level of disclosure of other alternative asset managers like KKR, Blackstone and Apollo (to which Blue Sky compares itself) and disclose its fee earning and gross AUM by asset class and at the fund ...

US hedge fund slams Blue Sky

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
... and attracting further capital." The statement noted that while Blue Sky "likes to compare itself" to Apollo, KKR and Blackstone, these companies have an enterprise value that is, on average, 13% of their fee-earning AUM. "If we apply the same ratio ...

La Trobe marches credit fund beyond $2bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... cash rates and increased competition from the banks resulting in the tightening of margins." US private equity giant Blackstone recently purchased an 80% stake in La Trobe. The credit specialist manages investment mandates in excess of $14 billion. Andrews ...

Macquarie leads alternatives pack

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... alternative asset managers, with Bridge Associates (US$116.8b) leading the pack, followed by TH Real Estate (US$105.5b) and Blackstone (US$102b).