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Ariel Investments launches EM portfolios in Australia

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2023
Ariel Investments is launching its first dedicated emerging markets offerings to local institutional investors. The Ariel Emerging Markets Value and Ariel Emerging Markets Value ex-China portfolios will be led by chief investment officer of emerging ...

Tishman Speyer, Raffles Family Office launch APAC fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
... forward to embarking on this journey with Tishman Speyer for an inaugural APAC Real Estate fund. This partnership is the first of its kind, he said, and it arrives at an ideal time to emphasise our conviction of the longer-term secular tailwinds across ...

Supercharging Australia's climate investment action

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... from this will be shared across industry sectors, different segments of the workforce, regional areas and Australia's First Nations people. Accompanying this will be a New Energy Apprenticeships program to deliver 10,000 apprenticeships and a Clean ...

Mercer scoops up third BT business unit

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2023
... Asset Management. Westpac's overall net profit surged 22% to $4 billion. Westpac chief executive Peter King said: "Our first half result reflects the progress we've made in becoming a simpler, stronger bank. Disciplined cost and margin management ...

APAC investors cut PE allocations by 50%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2023
Private equity and venture capital aggregate transaction value fell by 45% in the region, excluding Japan, in the first quarter. According to S&P Global Market Intelligence the drop from last year's US$14.7 billion to US$8.09 billion in Q1 2023 comes ...

Cadillac Fairview, Gateway launch $1bn fund down under

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 APR 2023
... reputation in the industry for hands-on, value-add investing throughout Australia." "We are confident this will mark the first of many direct investments in the industrial and logistics asset class across Asia Pacific as we continue to expand our footprint ...

REITs merit place in multi-asset portfolios: Insight

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2023
... officer of liquid real assets John Vojticek. He added access to deep capital markets has provided REITs the opportunity to be "first movers" in sectors including storage, data centres, assisted living, and single-family homes. "This dynamism provides ...

BT Super, Mercer merger completes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2023
... Mercer Super Trust to circa 850,000, it said. The merger has taken almost a year to execute, with the successor fund transfer first announced in May 2022. At the time, it was estimated BT Super members would see a 25% fee reduction, including no dollar-based ...

ETF market to hit $200bn by 2025

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023
... year also saw the addition of new asset classes to the market, including cryptocurrency, it noted. "Australia was also the first nation in the Asia Pacific to list cryptocurrency ETFs, which highlights how local investors and providers are striving to ...

Sun Venture makes first purchase down under

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2023
... a major domestic bank as we embark on our growth in Australia," Sun Venture said. CBRE head of international capital, pacific and southeast Asia Stuart McCann said that the debt funding was secured at a market leading rate. "This transaction demonstrates ...