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WTW promotes local staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
WTW, the pension consultant, has hired a new head of portfolio design lead and made a series of local promotions following annual performance reviews. Sasha Loutcheva joins from Russell Investments, where she spent three years as a senior asset allocation ...

Blue Owl completes local private wealth team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
Blue Owl Capital, one of Wall Street's largest alternative asset managers, continues to add to the local headcount. Not quite nine months after PIMCO's John Valtwies joined Blue Owl as a principal, Larry Francis has come on board from Bentham ...

Clients' evolving circumstances a 'key barrier' for advisers: Netwealth

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... products and revenue sources," Netwealth said. "We expect the strong adoption of managed accounts to continue as advisers focus on efficiency and automation."

Janus Henderson to take on $75bn fixed income portfolio

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
Janus Henderson has entered a strategic partnership with The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian) to manage its $75 billion (US$45 billion) investment grade public fixed income portfolio. As part of the partnership, Guardian investment ...

Data centres 'major growth sector' for Australia: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
... see rapid growth in the data centre space. "Sydney has seen significant activity in the data centre space, and while the focus now looks to be turning to Melbourne, we are also seeing Perth gain more traction and over the coming years, the momentum in ...

Cbus plays it steady amid rocky start to the year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
... same as it was when he worked on the account in the early 2000s as a consultant at Frontier Advisors. Gavin said it's a focus on a balanced portfolio with about a third in private markets - infrastructure, property, private equity, and credit - which ...

Perpetual to build digital wholesale term deposit marketplace

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... Australia enabling it develop a fully electronic, self-directed SaaS platform for debt instruments, which will initially focus on facilitating wholesale term deposits between authorised deposit-taking institutions, institutional investors, and wealth ...

Lakehouse Capital lists first fund on ASX

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025
... benchmark. Lakehouse portfolio manager Nick Thompson said the fund's long-term, high-conviction strategy positions investors to focus on companies with clear strategic advantages - loyalty, network effects, and intellectual property - at a time when ...

Count acquires Adelaide advice firm

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025
... step-change in the advice business. Johnston Grocke was established in 1990 with Doug Johnston and director John Grocke, with a focus on life insurance. They have expanded the capabilities into financial planning and accounting as the business grew. ...

RBA flags 'policy changes' could derail super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
... superannuation funds' governance and liquidity and operational risk management practices is therefore an area of ongoing focus of regulators."