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AustralianSuper appoints head of private credit

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2021
... the amount of member assets and number of loans we invest in private debt. We see most of this growth being via direct lending, and to make this happen we're looking to boost our team in AustralianSuper's London office," Ward said. AustralianSuper ...

Six new ombudsmen at AFCA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2021
... services sector. ANZ head of legal, dispute resolution group Louise McAuliffe, and Westpac practice leader for business lending legal James Taylor will join AFCA's banking and finance unit as ombudsmen. They both join AFCA in September. BizCover head ...

Alphinity launches new fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
... fuels such as uranium, gold mining where gold is the primary purpose of the mine, factory farming, live exports, predatory lending, alcohol and gambling, and old growth forestry logging, for example," he said. "When we come across a grey area related ...

Be ready for negative rates: APRA to ADIs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... negative market interest rates and cash rate by 30 April 2022. This would cover all products and activities, except for lending products that don't reference such rates, like business lending or residential mortgages. "In developing tactical solutions ...

Cbus expecting 19% returns for year

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
... invested about $700 million in capital raisings from ASX-listed companies affected by lockdowns. It also expanded its direct lending to construction companies and maintained an overweight to equities. This is an unusual year in superannuation funds' ...

Connectus acquires fifth practice

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2021
... George Ferizis Group. Since 1979 the group has advised small businesses on financial planning, investment management and lending solutions, as well as accounting and tax compliance services. Founder and director George Ferizis said joining a highly collaborative ...

HSBC makes alternatives push

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... success of our infrastructure debt teams, the rapid growth of our indirect private equity business, the launch of a direct lending investment capability with HSBC UK and the establishment of our Climatech venture capital team," HSBC chief executive Nicolas ...

Chief economist update: Anchoring the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... decided to maintain the status quo - keeping the interest rates unchanged on its main refinancing operations, the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility at 0.00%, 0.25% and -0.50%, respectively. Also: "The Governing Council will continue ...

Putting the local property boom in perspective

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... stability in Australia's mainstream property market with many buyers reaching their borrowing capacity under the responsible lending regime and simply being priced out once again from the major capital cities. "Although we need to be mindful we're only ...

Metrics adds three investment directors

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... experience. Prior to the Investec CAF role, he worked as Commonwealth Bank of Australia as head of middle market private equity lending, and at Deutsche Bank in London. Both have experience in Australian and European markets. The third investment director ...