Daniel Kemp

ASIC says it needs ‘greater visibility’ to support market integrity and help maintain confidence, and will carry out ‘targeted surveillance’ in the next 18 months.

Aware Super CEO Deanne Stewart says Warner’s ‘exceptional leadership’ and track record led to his promotion from head of portfolio management.

IFM will exit its remaining portfolio companies within the next five years, after failing to scale its PE strategy sufficiently despite strong recent returns.

KKR-owned Colonial First State, which manages one of Australia’s 10-largest superfunds, will make its inaugural private equity allocation this month, PE head Chloé Brayne tells PEI.

Pacific Equity Partners recently closed its seventh flagship fund on a company-record A$3.2bn, securing several new LPs in the process – and it led fundraising internally.

The $38bn pension fund aims to deploy around $1.4bn through GPs in PE, infrastructure and real estate, using a ‘co-GP model’ that brings in local partnerships.

Damian Graham will move to London at the end of 2025 to take on the role, with current head of international Damien Webb moving back to Sydney as planned.

APRA said that superfund trustees ‘have work to do’ to improve their processes, with enforcement action possible for underperformers.

APRA will soon publish a review into how superfunds value unlisted assets, with ASIC supporting the work as it considers systemic risk to the wider financial system.

ASIC has expanded its strategic priorities to include ‘consistency and transparency across markets’, which will include scrutiny of private investments.