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Partners Wealth Group appoints new head of distribution

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2024
... in enhancing the firm's capability to deliver innovative investment solutions across property, private equity, infrastructure, and alternative asset classes," the wealth management firm said. The firm added that his appointment to the leadership team ...

QIC reports $9bn record earnings

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2024
... ongoing inflationary pressures and macroeconomic challenges," QIC chief executive Kylie Rampa said. Rampa highlighted infrastructure, private equity, and private debt as some of the key drivers of performance. "We have also worked to better position ...

Carnegie's MHC Digital, Circle target local stablecoin push

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
... no use case for crypto, yet hundreds of billions move globally at a fraction of the cost of traditional payment infrastructure. "Crypto is simply a better mouse trap for the vast majority of international payments," he said. "Circle is the obvious candidate ...

Vision Super refreshes premium rates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
... continue to cover the cost of providing insurance to members. This week, the super fund will close its Property and Infrastructure options and remove them from one of its balanced offerings. Over three years, the Property option has returned just 1.73% ...

Colonial First State hires PE head, farewells sales exec

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... firm's chief investment officer Jonathan Armitage. She worked with the Canadian pension fund's Australian infrastructure team for three years as a senior investment director. Brayne oversaw CDPQ's infrastructure investment and asset management ...

ACCC approves Lendlease, Stockland property deal

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... challenge Stockland in Illawarra, and that "prospective entrants" face hurdles, including delays in getting crucial infrastructure, such as sewer and water services. To address the ACCC's concerns, Stockland offered an undertaking to the ACCC to divest ...

Family office, KKR buy up regional Queensland airports

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
The Infrastructure Fund (TIF), Australian Retirement Trust (ART) and State Super have offloaded Queensland Airports to private equity giant KKR and Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar's family office, Skip Capital. Queensland Airports comprises Gold ...

Super for housing debate heats up

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
... inward migration, restrictions on supply which at the moment include planning regulations, red tape, frontloading of infrastructure charges, shortages of manpower and materials caused by competition from government infrastructure projects, and low productivity ...

ASIC, RBA handed new financial market infrastructure powers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
ASIC and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) have been given new powers under new financial market infrastructure laws to enhance their licensing, supervisory, and enforcement abilities. The Treasury Laws Amendment (Financial Market Infrastructure and ...

RBA doubling down on wholesale CBDC

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... with today's ESAs... Yet another (though less potentially transformative) possibility is that the supporting infrastructure for ESAs is upgraded, to provide for more functionality than is currently available," the report said. This follows the RBA's ...