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NAB, Jarden to launch NZ wealth business

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023
... needs of our customers." Reliant on regulatory approvals, the deal is expected to complete in June 2024. NAB executive private wealth and JBWere chief executive Michael Saadie said: "We're pleased JBWere New Zealand will be part of a leading asset management ...

AustralianSuper supersizes Churchill Asset Management mandate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2023
... manager's partnership, first announced in December 2022, continues to target senior and unitranche loans to private equity-backed US middle market companies. "AustralianSuper's latest instalment reinforces the strength of our strategic partnership ...

Private markets make concrete inroads with advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023
... point, but the products themselves are starting to look and feel a lot more like a managed fund." Investors in private equity, for example, are traditionally known as "limited partnership arrangement". "Investors are not actually a unitholder, but partner ...

Barings prepares new strategies for local institutional investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023
... with a steady stream of transactions, private debt players are increasingly capturing market share from banks. The private equity sponsor network, traditionally reliant on banks for about 90% to 100% of demand is now experiencing a shift. Barings Private ...

Billionaires of all ages watching AI: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023
... 12 months and 38% plan to increase developed market bond holdings. By contrast, the successor generations favour private equity, with 59% looking to raise direct private equity investments and 55% looking to invest more in private equity funds. "This ...

Aware Super commits $10bn investment from new London base

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023
... concentrate its additional investments from its London headquarters into sectors like real estate, infrastructure, and private equity, focusing on the energy transition, affordable housing, life sciences, technology, and digital infrastructure. "We are ...

LGT Crestone offers exclusive access to the Princely family fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023
... still invests in traditional asset classes, it has a relatively high exposure to private markets assets, including private equity, which have historically been a source of outperformance to public markets and are not otherwise easily accessible. "We ...

AustralianSuper slams Brookfield's Origin Energy bid

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2023
... is resolute the value and future value of Origin is better in the hands of members and other shareholders than a private equity consortium planning to short-change them," the $300 billion super fund said. The fund added that it believes the ongoing energy ...

Private equity, venture capital outperform listed assets: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2023
Over the past decade, private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) in Australia have yielded an 18% return on investment compared to 9% for the ASX 100 and 8% for the ASX Small Ordinaries Index in the last decade. According to the Australian Investment ...

Scarcity Partners brings private equity investment model to Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2023
Scarcity Partners has launched a private equity investment model that enables investors to take direct equity stakes in investment and asset managers at the General Partner level. The Scarcity GP Access Fund, founded by asset management executives ...