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Assembly Funds Management seeks $100m

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
Assembly Funds Management (AFM), backed by the Lowy family, is seeking to raise about $100 million in re-opening its second property fund. Australian Diversified Property Fund 2 (ADPF2) is rattling the tin for the second time after it completed its ...

Global X chief to step down

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024
... ANZ ETFS, the joint venture between ANZ and ETF Securities. He was appointed chief executive in 2022 following the acquisition of ETF Securities by Mirae Asset. Since then, Global X has launched 19 new funds and grown its assets under management by $3 ...

Barings, Rest break ground on $400m investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2024
... internationally recognised 6-star Green Star Rating. Barings senior director, portfolio management James King said the acquisition of the Kemps Creek site takes the growing industrial asset portfolio of the Barings and Rest venture to around $1 billion. ...

Private capital fundraising remains in the doldrums: Preqin

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2024
... share (24.1%) of total deal value, but the two largest deals in the quarter were both in Australia. The first was the acquisition of PSC Insurance Group by Ardonagh Group for $1.5 billion, followed by Perpetual's hiving off its wealth management unit ...

Eildon divests stakes in four funds to Trilogy

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
... relating to a proposed transaction in response to an article in the AFR, which speculated the latter is "weighing an acquisition of Eildon" yet there is "no certainty Trilogy's interest would result in a takeover approach being made." "Eildon and ...

Eildon confirms talks with Trilogy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2024
... Funds is interested in buying "certain assets" from the ASX-listed company but stopped short of confirming a full acquisition. Eildon confirmed it is in discussions with Trilogy relating to a proposed transaction in response to an article in the AFR ...

Positives remain at Perpetual, says Morningstar

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2024
... risk assets continues to improve - prompting them to remain invested with Perpetual, and uncertainty over KKR's acquisition of wealth management and corporate trust subsides." It's the belief of Morningstar that the market is currently underappreciating ...

Maple-Brown Abbott sells to Antipodes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2024
Antipodes Partners is in acquisition mode, having acquired 100% of Maple-Brown Abbott just months after it bought up another boutique. Under the deal, Maple-Brown Abbott's global listed infrastructure, Australian value equities, and Australian small ...

Treasury releases M&A draft reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2024
... aims to change that. Businesses will still be given the option to seek an informal view from the ACCC on whether an acquisition is likely to break the prohibition against anti-competitive acquisitions to manage regulatory risk, which is currently how ...

Insignia Financial looks to slash redundancy entitlements

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
The Finance Sector Union (FSU) is calling on Insignia Financial to rethink a proposed overhaul of redundancy pay arrangements after the wealth manager tabled a plan to cut entitlements by more than half. The FSU is currently negotiating a new Enterprise ...