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AustralianSuper announces joint venture

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022
AustralianSuper has announced a new joint venture with British Land, which will see the two partner on the Canada Water Masterplan. British Land sold 50% of its stake in Canada Water Masterplan to AustralianSuper for £290 million. Following the completion ...

AGL rejects another takeover bid

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2022
AGL Energy has rejected another takeover bid offer made by the consortium led by Atlassian's Mike Cannon-Brookes. The $8.25 per share offer "is still well below both the fair value" of the company, the AGL board told the ASX this morning. Cannon-Brookes ...

Australian Unity appoints ESG lead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
... sustainability at Property NSW. Prior to that, he was sustainability manager at Bouygues Construction,which in a joint venture with Lendlease constructed the $3 billion NorthConnex tunnel linking the M2 to the M1 in Sydney. He was also previously a sustainability ...

Mirae to launch local ETF suite

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
... Standard. "In bringing Global X to Australia, we want to bring its original thinking to Australia." Together with the new venture, Walesby said Mirae will also focus on building the local actively managed fund capabilities, on top of two unlisted mutual ...

Former Hostplus investors tapped for VC fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022
... investment manager. The move followed several years working together at Hostplus; Stanford served as head of private equity and venture capital for more than seven years while Pappin was an investment specialist with the fund for three years. Now, just ...

Cannon-Brookes invests in renewables transition

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2022
Mike Cannon-Brookes continues to make a play for the sustainable investing sector, injecting $200 million into an initiative that will help accelerate the nation's renewable energy transition. The Cannon-Brookes-backed Grok Ventures allocated the ...

AGL rejects Cannon-Brookes, Brookfield bid

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2022
ASX listed energy company AGL has rejected a bid from Atlassian founder Mike Cannon-Brookes and Brookfield to take over the company. Brookfield and Cannon-Brookes' family office Grok Ventures partnered on the offer, offering AGL $7.50 per share. The ...

Cosmos AM, Purpose Investments crypto JV

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2022
Cosmos Asset Management (Cosmos AM) and Purpose Investments (Purpose) have entered a joint venture partnership, which will see the launch of new cryptocurrency investment products in Australia. Cosmos AM, which launched its first cryptocurrency ETF ...

Challenger delivers strong result

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022
... ASX-listed Apollo have entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding with the intention to establish a joint venture non-bank lending business in Australia and New Zealand. Apollo and Athene acquired an 18% minority interest in Challenger during ...

Crestone awards back-office, trade execution mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2022
... FinClear and the team and I are excited to work closely with them". FinClear is backed by Magellan Financial Group and venture capital firm King River Capital. Last financial year, Magellan made three major investments in investment bank Barrenjoey ...