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Link Group acquires HS Pensions

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2022
... deliver ongoing benefits in the form of further efficiencies and automation in FY23." However, he added: "The operating environment remains challenging with cost pressures from higher inflation, higher interest rates, challenging employment conditions ...

MetLife Investment Management to buy $1bn AIM

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2022
The asset management business of MetLife has agreed to acquire ESG-focused fixed income investment manager Affirmative Investment Management (AIM). With over $1 billion of assets under management, AIM focuses on managing fixed income portfolios that ...

Are Australia's wealthiest tight-fisted?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
The Centre for Social Impact's report investigating trends in Australians' income and philanthropic giving has found that although top-end wealth has grown, giving has lagged. Australia has the world's second highest median level of wealth and the fourth ...

ASIC capability review released

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2022
... regulator responded by commenting that it welcomed the report and its chair Joe Longo said: "We need to keep pace in an environment of accelerated change in order to be a confident and ambitious regulator. I welcome the FRAA's recommendations which ...

Nuveen appoints head of debt

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2022
... into Australia. Commenting on Marr's appointment, Nuveen's global head of debt Jack Gay said: "A rising interest rate environment amid elevated economic and market uncertainty will provide more attractive opportunities for us to participate in the growing ...

QIC multi-sector private debt team wins mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022
... attractive, yet we needed confidence in a manager's expertise in investment selection and structuring to navigate this environment and avoid borrower distress." She said the team's focus on debt origination, supported by QIC's other capabilities ...

Equity Trustees celebrates new mandate

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2022
... ability to be move nimbly to optimise credit investments especially in this rising interest rate and inflationary environment," Szekely said.

ASIC highlights strategic priorities

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2022
... resilience, Financial Accountability Regime (FAR) and digital technology and data. The report said: "Our regulatory environment is changing and evolving - climate risk, our ageing population, emerging data and digital technologies, and significant volatility ...

Capital raisings remain possible: MinterEllison

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2022
... recovery once sentiments turns." The report stated that other reasons for optimism include a broadly benign regulatory environment and the need for superannuation funds to invest their ever-increasing capital base. "Despite volatile macroeconomic conditions ...

Palisade Real Assets acquires second waste business

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
Palisade Real Assets has added another UK waste business to its portfolio, this time Malaby Biogas Limited (Malaby), an organic waste anaerobic digestion technology plant located in Warminster, Wiltshire. While the independent infrastructure manager ...