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Citi appoints head of investment partnerships

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... management by 32% last year. In another appointment to the retail bank announced today, AMP's head of strategic marketing Peter Forrest joined Citi as the head of banking products. Prior to AMP, Forrest was a division director at Macquarie Bank as its ...

Industry veterans recognised

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... O'Neill received the honour for his service to basketball and business. Chief executive of the Minderoo Foundation Nicola Forrest was recognised for her philanthropic support of education and arts as well as her service to business.

Forrests donate $655m to foundation

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
Mining magnate Andrew Forrest and wife Nicola have donated $655 million to their philanthropic foundation. Minderoo Foundation now has more than $1.5 billion in total donations from the couple and has supported 280 projects globally since its 2001 inception. ...

APN Property launches direct regional fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... the fund already exists. For typical direct property investments however, this is not the case. The fund's manager, Tom Forrest, said the two office buildings were over 96% leased and held "strong" performance track records. "Fundamentally, we like the ...

Andrew Hagger to lead investment, philanthropy group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... appointed as chief executive of Minderoo Group, a charitable foundation and investment business owned by mining magnate Andrew Forrest and wife Nicola. Hagger will relocate to Perth to start his new role in mid-March, leading both the philanthropic and ...

Blockchain comes to managed funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
A global funds network used by 95% of Australian platforms will migrate its entire network to blockchain in May 2019. Calastone expects its new distributed market infrastructure (DMI) to dramatically improve the infrastructure for trading and reporting ...

Leading philanthropic couple honoured

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018
... Australia's leading philanthropic couples received the top honour at the 2018 Philanthropic Awards. Nicola and Andrew Forrest were recognised as Philanthropy Leaders of the Year at Philanthropy Australia's annual awards night held at the Sydney ...

Iron magnate makes historic $400m pledge

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
... the largest ever donation by a living Australian to a range of charitable causes. Fortescue Metals chair Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest, along with his wife Nicola, donated $400 million through their Minderoo Foundation, established back in 2001. The funds ...

Instos consider Aussie infrastructure plans

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
Industry superannuation funds and other institutional investors were watching with interest yesterday as the Federal Government unveiled its infrastructure strategy for the next 15 years. Most significant is the government's development of a freight ...

Government allocates $920m pa for Smart Cities infrastructure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
As part of its $50 billion infrastructure investment package from 2013-14 to 2019-20, the Government has announced it will allocate $920 million every year to its Smart Cities program. Key components of the program include Roads to Recovery (maintenance ...