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Australian LPs struggle to recruit PE talent - AVCJ Forum

Recruitment is the biggest challenge for Australian institutional investors as they look to deepen their participation in private equity, senior executives told the AVCJ Australia & New Zealand Forum.

  • Australasia
  • 11 March 2019
Australian LPs strengthen GP ties through co-investment - AVCJ Forum

Australian LPs want to establish deep relationships with portfolio GPs – where they can play an additive role in the investment management process – and see co-investment as one of the best ways of achieving this.

  • Australasia
  • 07 March 2019
Australia's Future Fund recruits Alicia Gregory as PE head

Australia’s Future Fund has appointed Alicia Gregory as its new head of private equity. She currently occupies the same position at MLC, operator of the country’s largest retail superannuation fund.

  • Australasia
  • 07 March 2019
Australia's Future Fund credits performance to private markets exposure

Australia’s Future Fund expanded its PE exposure by more than one third over the course of 2018, with the sovereign wealth fund citing carefully cultivated private markets exposure as one of the reasons it has comfortably outperformed superannuation products....

  • Australasia
  • 13 February 2019
Australia's Funds SA hires Cameron Sinclair from Future Fund

Funds SA, which is responsible for investing on behalf of South Australia’s public-sector superannuation funds, has recruited Cameron Sinclair (pictured) from Future Fund to lead private equity and infrastructure activity.

  • Australasia
  • 18 January 2019
Australia's Future Fund loses private equity team - update

Three of the four most senior members of the private equity team at Australia’s Future Fund – including PE head Steve Byrom – have departed to set up their own consulting firm that will advise global institutional investors looking to build exposure to...

  • Australasia
  • 30 November 2018
Deal focus: Investors bring new lift to Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab's latest funding round is aimed at helping the New Zealand-founded company grow into new markets and target new business opportunities

  • Australasia
  • 22 November 2018
Australia's Future Fund leads $140m round for Rocket Lab

Australia’s Future Fund has led a $140 million Series E round for Rocket Lab, a US-based space technology company that operates primarily in New Zealand.

  • North America
  • 16 November 2018
Q&A: Future Fund's Raphael Arndt

Australia’s Future Fund is responding to disruption by investing in venture capital, factoring technology risk into investment decision making, and upgrading internal systems. CIO Raphael Arndt explains the rationale behind this approach

  • Australasia
  • 01 August 2018
Blackbird hits $193m final close on Australia VC fund

Blackbird Ventures has closed its third Australian VC fund with A$261 million ($193 million) in commitments, split between a core investment vehicle and a top-up fund.

  • Australasia
  • 30 July 2018
Future Fund backs $200m round for China's Tuya Smart

Australia’s Future Fund has joined a $200 million Series C round of funding for Tuya Smart, a Chinese internet-of-things (IoT) and voice artificial intelligence (AI) platform.

  • Greater China
  • 25 July 2018
Australia's Blackbird raises $173m for third fund

Australian venture capital firm Blackbird Ventures has reached a first close of A$225 million ($173 million) on its third fund - including a commitment from Future Fund, the country's sovereign wealth fund.

  • Australasia
  • 06 April 2018
Australia's Future Fund creates chief technology officer role

Australia’s Future Fund plans to hire a chief technology officer (CTO), part of whose remit will be to work with the investment team to develop technology solutions that support investment decision-making.

  • Australasia
  • 12 March 2018
Future Fund seeks Australia venture capital exposure

Australia’s Future Fund is close to making its first commitment to a local venture capital manager as part of ongoing efforts to take advantage of technological disruption in the global economy.

  • Australasia
  • 02 March 2018
Australia's Quadrant closes mid-market fund at $863m

Quadrant Private Equity has closed its latest mid-market Australia and New Zealand fund at A$1.15 billion ($863 million). As with the firm’s previous two fundraises, the process took approximately one month.

  • Australasia
  • 08 December 2017
High valuations push Australian LPs up the infrastructure risk curve

Australian institutional investors are responding to rising valuations in the core infrastructure space by moving up the risk curve into more opportunistic assets – and domestic pricing pressure is also expected to lead to higher emerging markets allocations....

  • Australasia
  • 13 September 2017
Australia's PE-backed PARF acquires domestic wind farm

Coopers Gap Wind Farm, a power facility under construction in Australia, has been acquired by the Powering Australian Renewables Fund (PARF), a renewable energy-focused vehicle backed by QIC and Australia’s Future Fund.

  • Australasia
  • 18 August 2017
Industry players warn of conflicts in evolving GP-LP relationship - AVCJ Forum

Institutional investors globally are looking to reduce the number of GPs in their portfolios with a view to writing bigger checks for – and having deeper relationships with – a smaller number of managers, but this lack of diversification in the LP base...

  • Australasia
  • 06 March 2017
Sovereigns and VC: An eye on the future

Australia's Future Fund appears to have overcome the philosophical and structural challenges facing face large-ticket LPs that want exposure to early-stage innovation

  • Australasia
  • 02 November 2016
Australia's Future Fund emphasizes VC, growth equity

Private equity – and in particular venture capital and growth equity – is “more important now than it has ever been” to Future Fund’s overall portfolio, the Australian sovereign wealth fund said in its annual report.

  • Australasia
  • 31 October 2016
PE-led consortium pays $7.3b for Port of Melbourne lease

A consortium including QIC, Future Fund and Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) has paid A$9.7 billion ($7.3 billion) for a 50-year lease at the Port of Melbourne, Australia’s largest container and cargo facility.

  • Australasia
  • 21 September 2016
PE exposure vital in weak global economy - Future Fund

Exposure to private equity and venture capital – where it is driven by true value creation rather than financial leverage or strong economic growth – has never been more important, according to Raphael Arndt, CIO of Australia’s Future Fund.

  • Australasia
  • 03 September 2016
Australia's Future Fund leads round for US-based MapR

Australia’s Future Fund has led a $50 million round of funding for US-based big data services company MapR Technologies.

  • North America
  • 10 August 2016
QIC, Future Fund support AGL's Australia renewables fund

The QIC Global Infrastructure Fund and Future Fund have committed A$800 million ($598 million) to the Powering Australian Renewables Fund (PARF), a vehicle launched by domestic electricity provider AGL Energy to bankroll large-scale renewable energy projects....

  • Australasia
  • 27 July 2016
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