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HarbourVest adds to local team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
HarbourVest Partners has hired Vanessa Pham as vice president of its private client group. The private markets specialist said Pham's appointment comes as the asset manager looks to further increase its coverage in the private wealth and family ...

BlackRock makes US$12bn acquisition

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
BlackRock is set to acquire credit manager HPS Investment Partners for US$12 billion, creating a US$220 billion franchise. Under the deal, the two entities will create a new private financing solutions business, to be led by HPS chief executive Scott ...

Nuveen extends private credit fund to Australian investors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024
Nuveen has extended access to its private capital platform to Australian wholesale investors via the launch of the Nuveen Churchill Private Credit Income Fund. Nuveen said the fund has already secured early investment from a range of Australian wealth ...

Illegal investment scheme operator to pay $1.25m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
The Federal Court has ordered Sasha Hopkins to pay $1.25 million and be disqualified for four years, in proceedings brought by ASIC. The court also ordered that The A Team Property Group, five of the investment schemes and associated companies be wound ...

Advisers put faith in global equities, small caps in 2025

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
A new study from Fidante suggests financial advisers will remain bullish on global equities and Australian small caps in the coming months. The Fidante Adviser Markets Survey, which surveyed more than 200 advisers, shows these are the asset classes ...

Hostplus ups fees, makes $125m investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2024
Hostplus has made changes to its investment fees and costs for FY23/24, increasing them between 0.06% to 0.16%. Members invested in the Conservative Balanced option and the Capital Stable option saw fees rise 10bps from 0.69% and 0.59%, respectively ...

Macquarie fined $25m over 400 fake trades

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2024
... made aware of," the FCA said. "Despite knowing of the weaknesses, MBL failed to put effective and timely plans in place to fix them." The totality of the fine would have resulted in a larger sum, but MBL agreed to resolve these matters and so qualified ...

Super fund adds to Payden & Rygel mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
A $34 billion superannuation fund has topped up its mandate with Payden & Rygel to manage a total of $700 million in assets. Payden & Rygel did not disclose which super fund awarded the mandate but said the money was invested in the Payden Multi Asset ...

Low-cost funds outperform in most asset classes: Morningstar

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2024
A new report from Morningstar demonstrates low-cost funds have typically outperformed their more expensive peers in the past, with the cheapest options always achieving a higher success ratio in most categories. Most prominently, in the multisector ...

Active managers outperform in limited asset classes, fall short in survivorship

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024
Active fund managers tend to outperform their passive counterparts in certain categories like Australian equity income and bonds, but the latter has better survivorship rates, according to Morningstar's latest Active/Passive Barometer report. The analysis ...