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Challenger appoints funds management boss

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
... Kapstream, Ardea and Bentham Asset Management, and has boutique partners in Australian equities, global equities and alternatives. Earlier this year, it attracted UBS Asset Management's small caps team as they looked to start a boutique after the firm ...

What Future Fund looks for in managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2019
... investment managers. Its total investments in private equity, private debt, property, infrastructure, timberland and alternatives accounted for about 45% of the portfolio at June end. Returns for the main fund for FY19 were 11.5%. Norris added that the ...

Statewide still keen on mergers

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
... funds, master trusts or corporate super funds as potential merger partners. Statewide is also open to considering alternatives to successor fund transfer. "The structure of how you execute a merger [whether it is a successor fund transfer or an extended ...

Beware dodgy auditors, sudden CFO moves: Plato

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... explained that a recent example of an Australian company triggering six red flags in the Plato system was Blue Sky Alternatives. One of those red flags was the sudden resignation of the company's chief financial officer. "There could be good reasons ...

Industry fund names new CIO

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... responsible for investment process and outcomes across asset allocation, investment strategy, manager selection, alternatives, implementation and risk management. His prior experience in superannuation and financial services includes holding senior roles ...

Boutique manager hires investment banking expert

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
The former managing director of RBC Capital Markets has left to join an alternatives asset manager with $4.6 billion of funds under management. Metrics Credit Partners has hired Hamish Mitchell as investment director to lead its loan origination activities ...

Trustee firm adds executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... before that. The appointment follows continued growth of the group as it meets market demand for boutique intermediary alternatives to the traditional trustee companies, MSC Group said. MSC Group also confirmed the appointment of Shelley Brown as head ...

Super funds keen on alternatives managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
Alternatives managers continued to win the biggest slice of institutional mandates awarded in Australia in the year to March end, according to the latest Rainmaker Mandate Chaser report. Not-for-profit superannuation funds and investment managers handed ...

Antares portfolio manager departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... "All things considered, the change in portfolio manager has impaired the investment case and investors should seek alternatives."

Asset manager reshuffles board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
An ASX-listed alternatives manager has shuffled its board lineup, with a new chair on the way. Keybridge Capital - which has been embroiled in a stoush with former funds management arm Aurora Funds Management over claims of owed funds - is in the process ...