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Iress halts divestment of UK mortgage business

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2022
Iress has announced that it will not proceed with the divestment of its UK mortgage business. This latest announcement contrasts plans previously outlined in the company's 2021 annual report to consider a sale of the mortgages business. It was originally ...

VFMC,CFA Societies combine to attract more women into investing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2022
Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) and CFA Societies Australia have joined Future IM/Pact - an industry campaign building a pipeline of future female investors. The new partners join as Future IM/Pact expands into the early career segment ...

Boys' clubs cost companies: Study

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2022
A new study from Realindex has revealed that higher female executive participation improves company performance, while creating potential returns for investors. Based on a global data set of 2500 large cap companies in 30 countries, tracking performance ...

Australian Ethical, Christian Super explore merger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2022
After having been directed to merge by APRA, Christian Super has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to do so with Australian Ethical. In a statement to the ASX, Australian Ethical said the two parties are undertaking due diligence to explore possible ...

Recession-style policy but no recession: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2022
Grattan Institute chief executive Danielle Wood has argued the federal government is spending as though there is a recession or a crisis, although there is no such situation. Speaking at the Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum in Sydney today ...

Aware increases stake in Lendlease retirement trust

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2022
Aware Super has agreed to buy an additional 24.9% of the Lendlease Retirement Living Trust for $490 million. The industry fund acquired an initial 25% interest in the entity a year ago for $460 million. Upon completion, Aware Super will hold a 49.9% ...

Government flags $17.9bn infrastructure spend

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
Ahead of the Federal Budget this evening, the government has announced a $17.9 billion infrastructure spend across the country. The new announcements will see the government's rolling 10-year infrastructure investment pipeline will increase from ...

GIC bolsters Australian real estate JV

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2022
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC expanded its partnership with a local real estate fund manager by injecting its joint venture with an additional $2.4 billion. NorthWest Australia's healthcare real estate joint venture with GIC has reached ...

Centuria joins forces with Morgan Stanley

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2022
Centuria Capital Group has partnered with Morgan Stanley in a bid to further expand its healthcare assets which have grown to $1.7 billion. The joint venture with Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing seeds an investment vehicle called the Centuria Prime ...

Perennial awards new fund admin mandate

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2022
Perennial Partners has appointed Apex Group to deliver fund administration and transfer agency services to its new Private Ventures Fund. The Perennial Private Ventures Fund is targeting a raise of $200 million to invest in high growth private businesses ...