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Aware Super flies the coop with sale to KKR

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
Aware Super has sold its stake in ProTen to KKR for an undisclosed amount. Established in 2001, ProTen develops, owns, and operates farm infrastructure for Australia's poultry supply chain. The company manages poultry infrastructure including more than ...

Potential Insignia takeover edges closer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
A final takeover offer for Insignia Financial may come within the next two weeks as CC Capital Partners "continues to actively work towards" making a binding bid for the wealth manager. Insignia confirmed CC Capital is finalising financing and investment ...

HMC Capital appoints to C-suite

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
HMC Capital has appointed Gerard Dover as chief executive of energy transmission platform as it seeks to merge two energy platforms acquisitions into one. HMC said the acquisition of Neoen Australia's Victorian assets (Neoen VIC portfolio) has seen ...

Chalmers opens economic reform consultation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
... chief executive Andrew McKellar, Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox, among others. "Each participant will play an important role in helping to shape our national reform priorities to boost productivity, strengthen our resilience and ...

Grok Ventures sees two executives exit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
Grok Ventures - the climate technology investor backed by Atlassian founder Mike Cannon-Brookes - has seen chief executive Tan Kueh and chief investment officer Jeremy Kwong-Law exit the business. "Both have played a huge role in Grok's journey ...

Bombora Advice appoints new chair, managing director

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
Bombora Advice is welcoming a new chair and a managing director following the departure of founder Kevin Martin. Wayne Handley will take on the role of executive chair and Niall McConville will become managing director, effective July 1. Martin served ...

Super funds, banks say cybersecurity is now their biggest concern

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
APRA's 2025 Stakeholder Survey shows that cyber security risk has emerged as the topmost concern in financial services. The survey, which gathered responses from 262 financial institutions, revealed that the threat of cyber security was listed as a ...

Talent exodus hits Zenith, Lonsec and Evidentia

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
Zenith Investment Partners will see the departure of its lead consultant, highlighting the intensifying battle for experienced asset consultants. Zenith lead consultant Steve Tang is understood to have joined colleague Ben Davis at Ascalon Capital. ...

Super moves: PE exec quits Future Fund for ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
One of Future Fund's top managers has left to join Australian Retirement Trust as a portfolio manager within the private equity team. Anika Choudhury has left Australia's sovereign wealth fund where she started out a senior analyst nearly five ...

Uncertainty propels investors towards active managers

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... conviction in global equities and private equity opportunities amongst Australian investors," Doyle said. "Bonds continue to play a vital role in building resilient portfolios through diversification, downside protection, and liquidity. This dynamic ...