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FCX granted 'historic' market licence by ASIC, RBA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
FinClear subsidiary FCX, a platform for facilitating private market secondary transactions, has been granted a "first-of-its-kind" Australian Market Licence and Clearing Settlement Facility Licence by ASIC and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). The ...

MFF Capital Investments to acquire Montaka Global Investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
... acquisition is expected to be finalised by early 2025, pending final agreements. Montaka Global's chief investment officer Andrew Macken, portfolio manager Chris Demasi, and research director Amit Nath will remain in their respective roles, with all ...

Australia's best-performing super fund says no to crypto

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024
Colonial First State (CFS), the best-performing super fund of the last financial year, has ruled out the idea of adding crypto to its investment portfolio. Despite its popularity, with nearly five million Australians owning crypto, CFS chief investment ...

VFMC fills new head of asset classes role

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024
Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) has tapped an internal candidate to step into the newly minted role of head of asset classes. Mark Aarons has been chosen to take on the role. Aarons joined VFMC in the role of head of investment risk in ...

Under the hood of a top global fundie

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2024
Investment management firm GQG Partners has achieved extraordinary success across its core strategies - global equity, international equity, emerging markets equity, and US equity. All these strategies belong to an exclusive club of long-only active ...

Partners Wealth Group appoints new head of distribution

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2024
Partners Wealth Group appointed a new head of distribution, a former three-time Olympic gold medalist no less, for its wholesale investments division, Partners Private. James Tomkins, who was most recently a national sales manager at UBS Asset Management ...

Pengana pauses share buyback

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2024
Pengana Capital Group's board informed shareholders that although the company's current share price doesn't reflect its true value, it's paused its share buyback program until uncertainties around the Employee Share Loan Plan are settled. The board ...

Commonwealth Bank shakes up executive leadership team

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2024
... Sian Lewis will both step down on 16 February 2025. Williams, who's been with the bank for six years, will be replaced by Andrew Hinchliff, the current institutional banking and markets group executive, while Lewis will be succeeded by Kiersten Robinson ...

Carnegie's MHC Digital, Circle target local stablecoin push

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
Venture capitalist Mark Carnegie's MHC Digital Group and fintech Circle have teamed up on a plan to ramp up USDC stablecoin distribution in Australia and Asia Pacific, exploring institutional use cases. USDC is a fully reserved stablecoin, with over ...

Ontario Teachers', Hines snap up build-to-rent portfolio

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
... strong rental growth dynamics as supply remains a challenge," he said. CBRE Pacific living sector capital markets specialist Andrew Purdon said through the development of this duo of top-class properties in inner Brisbane, Arklife has proven the develop ...