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Sexism in the City: UK financial sector slammed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024
... management has the poorest female representation, with just 12% of portfolio managers being women. Hedge funds and private equity also have poor representation of women. Other recommendations made by the Committee include urging all employers to equalise ...

MetLife chair Geoff Brunsdon retires after 13 years

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024
... Wakefield-Evans is a highly respected and experienced non-executive director of significant ASX-listed, government and private companies. She is also an M&A and equity capital markets lawyer with extensive governance experience. "MetLife is at a turning ...

Hamilton Lane debunks private market myths

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2024
... bad hangover from 2022's party-crashing histrionics. Throughout 2022 and early 2023, it was broadly decided that private equity couldn't be flat let alone up when the public markets were down 20%," the report said. Hamilton Lane indicated that private ...

Iress share price jumps on takeover rumours

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2024
Iress saw its share price skyrocket 15% as speculation swirled that a global private equity firm is keen on a buyout. An article in the AFR claiming US private equity investor Thoma Bravo is eyeing Iress sent investors into a tailspin, bumping up the ...

Family offices still love hedge funds: Preqin

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024
... hedge fund allocations, the report found that family offices are pivoting from challenged asset classes such as private equity and venture capital into other parts of the alternatives sector. Private debt investment grew from 8.3% to 12.4% over the past ...

Aware, Macquarie partner on green finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2024
... infrastructure finance company alongside Macquarie Asset Management's (MAM) Green Investment Group (GIG). Aware's private equity team will co-invest in Galway Sustainable Capital (GSC), a specialist infrastructure financier acquired by MAM in ...

Rest awards impact mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2024
... Rest made its initial impact investments into the unlisted infrastructure Palisade Impact Fund, with specialist private equity firm ARCHIMED. "Sustainability is becoming more important to forward-thinking Australian Institutional investors, such as Rest ...

QIC, super funds pour more into Queensland space tech

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
... services provider will be a strong value proposition for an underserviced segment of the global space market, QIC private equity investment director Patrick Christiansen said. "Growing sovereign capabilities in Australian aerospace is often talked about ...

Family offices choose private credit: Survey

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024
... basis," the report said. "Maybe more importantly, many of these same chief investment officers still believe that private equity, not private credit, is the best way to efficiently compound capital over a longer-term horizon." On the other end of the ...

Sydney HNWI drops $24m on EG building

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2024
A private investor has purchased EG's Mungo Scott Building, situated within the iconic Flour Mill of Summer Hill precinct for $23.8 million. The transaction of the Mungo Scott Building totals 3510 square metres and has an occupancy rate of 85%. The ...