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Noonan named AIST president

AIST RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... current chair of the industry body's policy committee, on the board of Innovation Australia and is chair of its Venture Capital Committee. He is also a board member of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI).

Fund managers to tap gov't capital

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... Fund managers around the country are invited to submit applications under the latest round of the Government's venture capital support program, the Innovation Investment Fund (IIF). Opening the latest application round last Friday, innovation minister ...

Alternatives by any other name

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... definition of the asset class. The pension fund's Alternative Investment Management Program reckons expansion capital, venture capital, distressed securities, special situations or corporate restructuring are alternative assets.

Cbus adds ESG into investment contracts

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... said the fund is also working closely with private equity managers, in particular the Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (AVCAL) Responsible Investment Steering Committee. The committee has recommended their members sign the United ...

All PE signs point to China

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
... investors now have a viable alternative, in terms of regional diversification, to their value investments in Europe or venture capital and distressed/turnaround investments in North America," noted a report by Adveq. "Only over the past ten years has ...

Macquarie eyes Middle East with JV

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... Islamic investment bank founded in 1999, offering a variety of Sharia'a compliant products across private equity, venture capital, asset management and development infrastructure. Over the past decade GFH has successfully launched initiatives with an ...

Shift to altern assets fuel valuation concerns: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... approaches." The regulator is instead directing funds towards the IFSA and AVCAL (Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association) guidelines as the latter in particular has been dealing with these challenges for decades. Following perceptions ...

Pres Obama proposes sweeping regulatory reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... proposals that "All advisers to hedge funds (and other private pools of capital, including private equity funds and venture capital funds) whose assets under management exceed some modest threshold should be required to register with the Securities and ...

Future Fund hires more managers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... debt markets. Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Oak Hill Advisors were both appointed new mandates in the space. Venture capital fund of funds manager Montagu Newhall also received a private equity mandate - a sector which makes up over $1 billion in ...

WA planning firm moves east

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... joined the firm soon after. Indian Ocean Capital provides securities trading, public company capital raisings, venture capital, derivatives trading, seed capital and private research services. Previous initial price offer (IPO) clients include Jupiter ...