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Mantis to distribute new micro cap offering

1 week ago | financialstandard.com.au | Jamie Williamson

Mantis Funds has secured a distribution deal with Balmoral Investors, taking its micro cap strategy to market. Mantis Funds will distribute the Balmoral Investors Micro Cap Fund to wholesale investors, offering access to quality ASX-listed micro caps via a long only and benchmark unaware strategy. It invests exclusively in companies with a market capitalisation of less than $750 million.
Institutional capital returns to retail real estate after hiatus

1 week ago | financialstandard.com.au | Andrew McKean

Institutional capital is re-engaging in the retail real estate market, reflecting renewed conviction in the sector's outlook, according to a GPT Group report. The real estate manager, which has $34 billion in assets under management, argued that the retail investment proposition is underpinned by a relatively stable and conducive economic environment, marked by strong population growth, stabilising inflation, and expected monetary policy easing through the year.
Insignia gives PE firms more time to devise deal

1 week ago | financialstandard.com.au | Jamie Williamson

Bain Capital and CC Capital Partners have been granted more time to thumb through Insignia Financial's books. Insignia Financial has extended the exclusivity deeds it signed with Bain Capital and CC Capital Partners in early March by four weeks. It said this was to enable both bidders to finalise debt funding and associate due diligence, as well as giving them time to complete all aspects of the scheme implementation deed.
Brighter Super finds first partner for new advice referral scheme

1 week ago | financialstandard.com.au | Andrew McKean

Brighter Super has named Queensland-based firm Financial Advice Matters, part of Centrepoint Alliance, as the foundation partner for its financial advice referral program. Under the arrangement, which starts in June, Financial Advice Matters, which provides financial advice to more than 2000 families, will deliver "comprehensive advice services" to Brighter Super members who require more complex, personalised support.
Japan's first digital investment platform for private assets goes live

1 week ago | financialstandard.com.au | Andrew McKean

Tokyo-based financial services firm Keyaki Capital has launched what its describes as a "first of its kind" online platform to exclusively offer private equity, private credit, and other private asset investment funds to Japanese high-net-worth investors.
Coalition targets 'ambitious' goal of 30k advisers

1 week ago | financialstandard.com.au | Eliza Bavin

Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor and Shadow Assistant Treasurer Luke Howarth have announced a range of measures the Coalition would be looking to prioritise for the financial advice industry if elected on May 3. Among these policies, Taylor and Howarth said the Coalition would make access to affordable financial advice a priority by setting an "ambitious target" to rebuild the advice industry to 30,000 advisers.
Global investor services group enters Australia

1 week ago | financialstandard.com.au | Eliza Bavin

Global investor services firm IQ-EQ has entered the Australian market with the acquisition of AMAL Group - a provider of corporate trust, agency services and loan servicing solutions. The strategic acquisition of AMAL Group includes AMAL Asset Management, AMAL Corporate Holdings and their subsidiaries. IQ-EQ is backed by Astorg, a pan-European private equity firm with more than $42 billion (€24 billion) of assets under management.
VanEck to launch RMBS, India ETFs

1 week ago | financialstandard.com.au | Jamie Williamson

VanEck will soon list two new ETFs, one being an RMBS strategy and the other investing in Indian growth stocks. The VanEck Australian RMBS ETF (ASX: RMBS) will give investors access to a residential mortgage-backed securities strategy, which VanEck said should prove compelling to investors in the current environment.
HUB24 sees record quarterly inflows of $4.9bn

1 week ago | financialstandard.com.au | Eliza Bavin

HUB24 saw record platform inflows in Q3 of $4.9 billion, thanks to the large migration of $1.3 billion from Clearview WealthFoundations to HUB24 Super. Total funds under administration (FUA) reached $124.1 billion, up 24% on the prior corresponding period, including platform FUA of $102.5 billion. On the platform side, HUB24 said it signed 28 new distribution agreements during the quarter and the total number of advisers using the platform increased by 129 to 5015.
GESB expands leadership team

1 week ago | financialstandard.com.au | Jamie Williamson

GESB, the super fund for Western Australia's public sector, added a former HESTA executive as its chief member experience officer, while also welcoming a chief corporate services officer. Both are newly created roles for GESB, which is undergoing a transformation of sorts after changes to WA's State Superannuation Act were passed, allowing the fund to continue receiving contributions from members no longer working in the public sector.