September
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Big dogs go to war for Platinum’s $175m honeypot
If there’s one thing we can be sure of, it is that Platinum’s M&A dance didn’t end on Thursday. Its fee-earning assets under management are too tempting.
- Anthony Macdonald
July
- Exclusive
- Governance
Geoff Wilson battles against renewed push for virtual AGMs
The veteran fund manager has launched a fresh campaign with the backing of his 130,000 retail investors to save the physical annual meeting.
- Patrick Durkin
Labour landslide; Starmer should worry Albo; Stock picker’s $46m spree
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Exclusive
- Luxury property
Stock picker takes Sunshine Beach spend to $46m
Wilson Asset Management founder Geoff Wilson and his wife, Karen Greer, have expanded their footprint in the area to three oceanfront properties.
- Bonnie Campbell
- Analysis
- Investing
Ackman’s huge new fund offers zero fees, with a catch
The hedge fund king known for monster returns is set to market up to $US26 billion worth of shares to retail investors with zero fees for 12 months.
- Tom Richardson
May
- Exclusive
- BOSS
How Geoff Wilson assembled his investment dream team
Philip Lowe, Jennifer Westacott, Mike Baird, David Paradice, Andrew Forrest and Solomon Lew are among the heavy-hitters who have joined Geoff Wilson’s charitable mission to raise money for kids.
- Patrick Durkin
Australian Unity Office Fund in exclusive DD for St Kilda property
Street Talk understands the $220 million market cap fund is in exclusive due diligence with a buyer for its St Kilda Road property.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
April
Super tax changes to ‘cut off lifeblood’ of local business
Funds management veteran Geoff Wilson says Labor’s controversial plan to tax unrealised gains on big superannuation accounts will discourage investment in local firms.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Fundies name ‘fallen angel’ stock picks
On Thursday morning, investors will be obsessing over what US inflation data says about rate cuts. But Munro Partners’ Qiao Ma won’t be one of them.
- Updated
- James Thomson
Super funds nominating directors to boards ‘unwise’
Super funds that nominate a director to a company board may fail to change the organisation’s strategy and could lose flexibility to manage their investment, leading chairmen warn.
- Sally Patten
March
Philip Lowe lands funds management gig
The former RBA governor will succeed ex-NSW premier Mike Baird as chairman of Geoff Wilson’s Future Generation Australia charitable investment vehicle.
- Updated
- Jemima Whyte
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
What Philip Lowe did next
Philip Lowe is making a gentle first step in the private sector with philanthropy-focused LIC, Future Generation Australia; the former governor says the RBA has its messaging on rates right.
- James Thomson
Hearts & Minds’ heavyweight board stares down New York hedge fund
Saba Capital, which has previously campaigned against BlackRock in its bid to change funds, has bought up some 10 per cent of the ASX-listed philanthropy vehicle.
- Jonathan Shapiro and Joshua Peach
January
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
LIC sector far from dead as fundie wars flare up
Fund managers’ perennial fight over a pot of fees ensures fundie wars will rage again this year. One fighter not scared to put noses out of joint is happy to lead the way.
- Anthony Macdonald
December 2023
Wilson claims $5.6m of Bolton’s Magellan profits ‘unaccounted for’
Geoff Wilson’s lawyers are demanding more information about how activist Nick Bolton has allocated the profits from his Magellan options raid.
- Jonathan Shapiro
November 2023
Former BCA chief lands gig at Geoff Wilson’s Future Generation
Jennifer Westacott will chair Future Generation Global, one of two philanthropic investment vehicles established by the high-profile fund manager.
- Jemima Whyte
Franking credits deal close in Senate
Reinvested dividends and banks raising capital to bolster their balance sheets will be carved out of a government tax crackdown on franking credits.
- John Kehoe
September 2023
Geoff Wilson wades out of LICs for WAM Leaders
The veteran fund manager is taking a hall pass from his long-lasting love affair with listed investment companies.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
July 2023
WAM climbs up QV Equities’ register, Taylor Collison crosses line
It is understood WAM was the buyer (and 1607 the seller) behind a line of 15.7 million shares in QV equities crossed by stockbroker Taylor Collison on Wednesday morning.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
June 2023
Geoff Wilson enters Cordish Dixon PE funds fracas, motives unclear
Geoff Wilson is setting up an eleventh-hour quarrel at E&P’s Cordish Dixon private equity funds.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport