This Month
HMC goes on the offensive to woo market bearish on its data centres
The asset manager showed dozens of institutional investors and analysts around its major Sydney site, pointing to optimistic research to back up its plan.
- Tess Bennett
Tribeca expands distribution headcount with Australian Ethical hire
The firm, home to well-known fund managers including Ben Cleary and John Stover, has doubled its distribution headcount with new hires in Sydney and Singapore.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
PE firm Adamantem Capital swoops on IPO-candidate Mason Stevens
Street Talk understands an agreement was signed between the two parties on Wednesday morning, handing over the keys to 100 per cent of the company.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Private equity’s musical chairs rub salt into sore wounds
These trades drive public and private markets investors further apart when they need each other more than ever.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Lapped up at $5, unloved at $4.30 – Di Pilla’s year-end IPO shocker
How do you turn on sentiment if nothing has changed and at a time of the year when institutions turn off the taps?
- Anthony Macdonald
‘Instant gratification’ investors drive 14pc fall in data centre float
Investors have sold out of data centre landlord DigiCo after it failed to fire up following its much-hyped float on Friday, say brokers.
- Larry Schlesinger
PE deal makers tipped to “get creative” in 2025 as exits mount
The payday isn’t as big for the equity capital markets bankers, a backdoor listing lacking the hoopla of an IPO. But whatever works to get things moving.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
‘Overvalued’: Early verdict on DigiCo float feels like a GyG rerun
David Di Pilla cleverly and quickly seized on the hottest story in markets to get his listing away. But a bigger debate is brewing on the data centre sector.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The five things next year’s IPOs need to make them sing
If next year’s IPO contenders can tick these boxes, they’re a good chance of getting away. If not, they’ll try to use price to bridge the gap, which is never easy.
- Anthony Macdonald
November
- Opinion
- Fast 100
Is the IPO route right for your business?
While sharemarket floats can access deep capital for growing businesses, it’s essential to explore all available options to determine the right investment path.
- Gavan Carroll
David Di Pilla’s favourite chairman applies some whitewash
The prodigious dealmaker tapped Joseph Carrozzi to be chairman of DigiCo REIT. Just don’t mention his former employer.
- Mark Di Stefano
Who is Canva’s new Wall Street weapon?
Canva’s new chief financial officer Kelly Steckelberg has seen the highs and the lows of the tech boom, and starts on Tuesday as Canva heads to an IPO.
- Amelia McGuire
Investors strip $36.4m from Cuscal on ASX debut
The cool reception for the company comes after regulators instructed the company to improve its risk controls and scepticism towards payments businesses.
- Updated
- Lucas Baird
Perth’s Merchant Funds has an unusual way of reporting returns
Additional digging into the fund, which has frozen redemptions, found the way it reports annual reports is out of step with the wider funds management community.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Cuscal closes book for $336 million IPO
The payments infrastructure business is excepted to begin trading with a $479 million market capitalisation on Monday.
- Updated
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Di Pilla’s $4b data centre play books December debut on ASX
The much-heralded float from the deal-making dynamo taps into one of this year’s hottest themes across the infrastructure, technology and property sectors.
- Nick Lenaghan
Done deal! Di Pilla’s data centre REIT DigiCo locks its $2.75b ASX debut
It’s Australia’s biggest IPO in six years and adds a new data centre exposure to the ASX.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Canadian miner Marimaca Copper taps advisers for ASX debut
The company’s Hayden Locke-led management team is yet to decide if it wants to raise fresh equity as part of the ASX listing or defer it to a later date.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Wheels fall off the ASX’s new ‘Ferrari’
If the deal was about letting a sports car out of the garage, it drove straight into a freezer. A potential accounting issue is the last thing it needed.
- Anthony Macdonald
Cuscal allocates two thirds of $336.8m IPO: book message
Payments infrastructure business Cuscal is picking up pace as it eyes a $479 million float.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport