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Ironbark partners with HarbourVest to launch fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2024
Ironbark Asset Management and global private markets firm HarbourVest Partners have joined in a strategic partnership with the launch of the Ironbark HarbourVest HGPS - Diversified Private Equity Fund. The fund is an open-ended Australian managed investment ...

Generation Development Group to take over Lonsec

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024
Lonsec Holdings will have a new parent company as Generation Development Group (GDG) is due to acquire the remaining stake in the research and ratings house. GDG will scoop up an additional 61.9% stake in Lonsec valued at $197.4 million. About $155.4 ...

Interest rate relief unlikely 'this side of Christmas'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2024
... period with "little relief likely this side of Christmas". "There's a simmering risk that the RBA may feel obligated to raise rates further to reduce inflation in those demand-sensitive areas it can influence (such as discretionary consumer goods and ...

EQT Mid-Market Growth Fund exceeds target

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
... (MMG fund) has held its final close at $2.4 billion in total fund commitments, of which $2.1 billion is fee-generating. The raise more than doubled the fund's original target size of $1.1 billion. The MMG fund invests in high-growth mid-market companies ...

Employees will quit on full return-to-office orders: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
Financial services professionals will threaten to quit if they are forced to go into the office five days a week, a Robert Walters survey finds. The survey based on more than 2000 Australian workers found that nine out of 10 will look for a new job ...

APRA hits Mercer with additional licence conditions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has imposed additional licence conditions on Mercer Super to ensure it addresses risk management and compliance management deficiencies identified by the regulator. The risk management and compliance ...

Platform reveals advice firms' top issues

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024
Practice management, advice technology, and superannuation are top of mind for financial advisers who want to improve their aptitude and knowledge, according to professional networking platform Ensombl. The analysis of adviser conversations stemming ...

UK forewarns Australia on wholesale test changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024
... effective March 27 following concerns from stakeholders about the unintended impacts, particularly start-ups' inability to raise finance from small-scale investors. Australia's start-up community is raising similar alarm bells as the government touts ...

Centuria launches new wholesale fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2024
... It has forecast starting annual distribution of 8.0% paid monthly, and a target 13.5% IRR. The Fund has a targeted equity raise of $41 million with investments starting from $100,000. The real estate funds manager acquired Halls Head Central for $70 ...

Private markets demand cools: bfinance

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
Investors' appetite for private market strategies appears to be waning as capital raisings fail to keep pace with the frenzied demand in 2023. According to a new report from bfinance, Manager intelligence and market trends, global private markets ...