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GE, Cheesecake Factory pursued for disclosure violations

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
... internal information in its March 23 and April 3 filings, the company did share this information with potential private equity investors in an effort to seek additional liquidity. Without admitting to the SEC's allegations, the Cheesecake Factory agreed ...

Longstanding CDPQ executive resigns

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
... Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec has announced the resignation of Macky Tall, its head of real assets and private equity and the lead of its infrastructure business. Tall has resigned from all his positions at the pension fund, having been named ...

Future Fund appoints chief investment officer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... unlisted property. He was previously senior director with PSP Investments in Canada. Kelvin Mak has also joined the private equity team at Future Fund, from Navis Capital Partners.

Praemium develops relationship with US platform

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... American platform for alternative funds. Qualis Capital's platform offers sophisticated investors funds in private equity, real estate, private debt and hedge funds. In May, Powerwrap signed an administration partnership with Qualis and also became ...

Macquarie to offer private market solutions

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... "institutional-quality" investments to sophisticated investors. Clients will have access to diversified private markets, including private equity, private debt, alternative yield, and private real assets strategies. Private markets have been out of reach ...

Fidante signs on new partner

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
Challenger's Fidante Partners has signed on a private equity manager focused on food and agribusiness. Fidante will market Minneapolis-headquartered Proterra Investment Partners' Asia Food Strategy to European investors. Proterra has $4.4 billion in ...

ESG push not going anywhere

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
... a focus for alternative fund managers. The survey found talent retention is the number one priority for 83% of private equity firms and 55% of hedge funds in Asia Pacific. Managers are also concerned with employee productivity, deterioration in firm ...

Off-platform assets consume advisers' time

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... term deposits, ASX-listed shares, ETFs, direct and commercial property, wholesale and retail managed funds, and private equity holdings. Many advisers still administer and report off-platform assets manually, spending almost twice as much time collating ...

Super funds overlook VC potential

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
... benefits to their members. Preqin and the Australian Investment Council estimate the local venture capital and private equity have a combined market of $33 billion, delivering net annual returns of 12.49%. Two years ago, Financial Standard reported that ...

IFM bets on SaaS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
IFM Investors' new private equity growth fund has made its first transaction, taking a significant minority interest in Zuuse for around $50 million. Zuuse is a global provider of construction payment management Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions ...