Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 31 - 40 of 140 results for "IT investment"

Sovereign wealth fund awards $700m mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2022
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority has handed a $700 million mandate to a listed real estate investment manager. The mandate has been awarded to Qualitas by a wholly owned subsidiary of the fund and it's to invest in local commercial real estate ...

Risk asset volatility guaranteed: Western Asset

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
Geopolitical developments and central bank tightening have made risk asset volatility a surety this year, according to Franklin Templeton's specialised investment managers Western Asset. However, Western Asset has said that despite geopolitical turbulence ...

Gordon Brothers receives financing from CPP Investments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
Gordon Brothers has had a US $300 million cash injection from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments). The new financing brings the capital base for Gordon Brothers to more than $1 billion. The advisory, restructuring and investments ...

Contango signs distribution deal, flags rebrand

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2022
Contango Asset Management has entered into a distribution agreement with a newly launched private credit manager launched by the former chief investment officer of Merricks Capital. It has also signalled its intention to rebrand. Woodbridge Capital ...

Equity Trustees wins Hejaz mandate

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2022
Hejaz Asset Management has appointed Equity Trustees as responsible entity of three new Sharia-compliant funds. The three funds are the Hejaz Equity Fund, the Hejaz Property Fund and the Hejaz Income Fund. The Equity Fund aims to match the returns of ...

Australia more worried about inflation: Nuveen

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2022
Australian institutional investors are more concerned about inflation than their global counterparts, according to a new survey. Nuveen's second annual EQuilibrium Global Institutional Investor Study revealed similarities in the views and responses ...

GCI appoints managing director

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2022
A former RBC executive was appointed to expand the national footprint of the specialist fixed income and credit fund manager. Joel Keating is setting up Global Credit Investments' Melbourne office as managing director, having recently returned to Australia ...

American Century introduces small-cap fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
... variant has created hesitancy. We also see continued demand for robust IT spending, with companies realising that IT investment is critical to their success in a hybrid world. Our bottom-up process is identifying well-run, small cap technology companies ...

Former QIC managing director joins Northleaf

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021
The former managing director of business development at QIC is taking on a new role with private markets investment firm Northleaf Capital Partners. Chris O'Connor has joined Northleaf as managing director, business development for Australia and New ...

Jameson Capital launches fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
The Melbourne based alternative asset management firm has secured funding from investors to launch a special situations real estate fund. Jameson received $25 million from two European cornerstone investors to launch the fund. The fund will invest into ...