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SVG invests in Australian agtech

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
Silicon Valley agrifood innovation investor SVG is launching a $50 million venture fund in Melbourne to fund local agtech startups. The THRIVE Australia Venture Fund aims grow the agtech startup ecosystem in Victoria and across Australia fast-tracking ...

Practifi launches deal management app

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2022
Practifi has rolled out a business development app for the wealth industry that manages multiple growth activities while tracking pipeline performance. The app seeks to satisfy industry demand for comprehensive lifecycle management that tracks and manages ...

Brookfield names leadership for asset management business

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2022
Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney will become chair of Brookfield Asset Management when it lists separately in November. Carney will take on the role in addition to his other responsibilities as head of transition investing. He is currently ...

Wellington Management hires from GAM Investments

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2022
The US$1 trillion asset manager has recruited GAM Investments' senior manager of institutional business. Sophie McFadyen joins Wellington Management as a local account manager. She was previously senior manager for GAM Investments' local institutional ...

CSLR establishment is critical: FPA

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2022
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has called out the urgent need for a broad-based Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) following ASIC's recent notice for former Dixon Advisory clients to register any complaints with the ...

BlackRock, Coinbase partner on crypto offering

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2022
BlackRock will make cryptocurrency available to institutional investors through a partnership with Coinbase. The investment giant selected Coinbase to provide its institutional clients with direct access to crypto, starting with Bitcoin, and the market ...

VFMC names head of equities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2022
Victorian Funds Management Corporation has hired from HESTA to fill the role of head of equities. Stuart Birkett has been an investment manager with HESTA since 2019. Most recently he led international equity and active currency investments but previously ...

Financial abuse linked to violence: CBA, UNSW

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2022
Commonwealth Bank and the UNSW Generated Violence Research Network (GVRN) partnership commented on findings showing economic and financial abuse is linked to domestic and family violence. Statistics show that one in four women and one in 13 men have ...

Aware Super completes agricultural land sale

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2022
Aware Super has sold its Lake Boga farming portfolio to agricultural investment firm goFarm for approximately $30 million. The 9000 hectares of agricultural land between Lake Boga and Kerang in northern Victoria was put up for sale in September last ...

Perpetual Private hires from MLC, MetLife

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2022
Perpetual Private has two new lead partners, including a former head of advice from MLC. It has also welcomed a national manager of trustee services. Chemere Brown and Matthew Le Belenger have joined, with Brown overseeing Victoria while Le Belenger ...