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Macquarie buys Canadian dealer

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... acquired Delaware Investments and Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller. Macquarie has also been busy signing joint ventures in China and the Middle East through its Sino-Australian International Trust Company and Gulf Finance House deals.

CalPERS reviews US$50m fees to placement agent

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... According to a press statement, CalPERS internal records show that the sum was paid over five years to ARVCO Financial Ventures LLC, a placement agent firm headed by Al Villalobos, a CalPERS Board member from 1993 and 1995. "The placement agent industry ...

ANZ buys ING Aus for $1.76bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
... executive Mike Smith said in an ASX statement that moving to full ownership of the wealth management and life insurance joint ventures will significantly strengthen their position in wealth management locally. It also means the bank can better integrate ...

AUI signs Asian equities jv

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... of investments at Australian Unity (AUI), kept mum on the details but said the group is looking to do more 50/50 joint ventures, possibly in international equities, listed property and global fixed interest. Today it revealed that the latest addition ...

Euro PE market shows value

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
... assets at lower prices, according to a private equity fund-of-fund manager. Helen Steers, London partner at Pantheon Ventures, a global private equity primary and secondary fund-of-fund manager, said the price for mid-market deals is decreasing. "People ...

Cuffe joins Centric board

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... the FirstChoice platform and, separately, Challenger Financial Services Group. He now works at non-profit group Social Ventures Australia as an executive, assisting in the development of the Third Link Growth fund, an investment structure to help fund ...

Crisis curbs Cuffe charity fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... unlike some managed funds, the fund had less than 50 basis points invested in cash. The fund is designed to provide Social Ventures Australia (SVA) with a regular income stream of around $1.5 million per year once the fund reaches $150 million in funds ...

Secondaries top PE list

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... is clearly favouring the buyer in this current environment, said a global expert. Sally Collier, partner at Pantheon Ventures, said that the mismatch between the buyer and seller's market is currently weighing in at about US$100 billion, with more firms ...

Trust eyes global investors

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
... after tax of $20.6 million in the '09 financial year which is up 2 per cent on the prior comparative period. Several ventures such as a $13.9 million profit on the sale of its 50 per cent stake in the BNYTA joint venture offset by $8.8 million in impairment ...

More room to grow: AUI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... David Bryant, head of investments at AUI, said that the fund manager has capacity to "do a couple more" 50/50 style joint ventures - provided the partnership, relationship and investment strategies were right. One of the areas AUI is looking to develop ...