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CFS awards equity, infrastructure mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
Colonial First State (CFS) has tapped two fund managers to oversee its Australian equities and infrastructure strategies. ClearBridge Investments is now sub-advising a listed infrastructure mandate on the FirstChoice platform. ClearBridge declined to ...

ASX says CHESS Release 2 costs to hit $320m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... strategy to continue to build long term shareholder value. The new CHESS system we are implementing is critical market infrastructure and we need to make the appropriate investment to ensure it can provide for the market today and into the future. As ...

Investors plan to continue private markets love affair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
... than 50% of investors are expecting to increase their exposure to private markets over the next 18 months, with infrastructure and private debt managers expected to benefit most. That's according to bfinance's latest Global Asset Owner Survey, which ...

HMC Capital launches DigiCo REIT

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024
HMC Capital has officially launched its new Digital Infrastructure REIT (DigiCo) on the ASX with an enterprise value of $4.3 billion in data centre assets in Australia and the US. HMC said due to significant demand from institutional cornerstone and ...

Private equity, real estate spearhead unlisted assets demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024
... the other asset classes. Real estate investors anticipate 11.6% net returns on average, while those invested in infrastructure equity demand 11.4%. Allocations in the latter is set to grow by 0.74 points to 7.34% over five years. Meanwhile, private debt ...

Future Fund to back energy transition, residential housing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024
... mandate, with the government directing it to prioritise investments in the energy transition, residential housing, and infrastructure. The $230 billion sovereign wealth fund has been provided with a new investment mandate and statement of expectations ...

HESTA to pay members impacted by COVID revaluations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2024
... reduction to the fund's $126 billion balanced option - and Hostplus which devalued assets within its property and infrastructure portfolios by a range of 7.5%-10%. In June 2024, APRA said there was room for improvement when it comes to trustees' ...

DWS, S64 launch sustainable infrastructure offering

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024
DWS has launched a sustainable infrastructure focussed Wholesale Australian Unit Trust for Australian private wealth managers in a partnership with S64, the alternatives fintech. The offering empowers financial intermediaries to distribute private markets ...

Admin and compliance taking up 56% of advice practice costs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024
... quality' challenge." Chief executive of elemnta Shaun Green said the industry's future depends on a strong data infrastructure foundation. "The research makes evident a severe disconnect between the top-down technology solutions and bottom-up ...

Macquarie offloads airports in $3bn deal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
Macquarie Asset Management, via Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 4, and Ferrovial have reached an agreement to sell AGS Airports to AviAlliance. The terms of the transaction represent an enterprise value for the business of around $3 billion (£1.53 ...