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Hamilton Wealth mandates arcpoint OCIO

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2026
Hamilton Wealth Partners has appointed arcpoint OCIO as its outsourced chief investment office as the specialist family wealth advisory firm seeks to strengthen its investment governance and support the needs of its growing client base. arcpoint founding ...

Alceon makes first investment with new PE strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2026
Alceon has acquired a majority stake in an Australian-based Microsoft partner via its recently launched private equity fund. The Private Equity Access Fund was launched earlier this year, targeting founder-led lower mid-market companies generating $5 ...

Active strategies a different story in ETFs: MSCI

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2026
... value," Haines said. "As the ETF market enters a more mature phase, advisers are also asking harder questions about the product's fit. The opportunity lies not just in providing more choice, but in knowing where the structure adds value, where its limits ...

AI moves into the advice process

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2026
Financial advisers could soon spend less time piecing together clients' histories and more time acting on them, as Marloo launches an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that searches entire client books alongside new research showing consumers are increasingly ...

Macquarie Asset Management launches 10th ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2026
Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) has launched a low-cost, actively managed fixed income ETF that charges a management fee of 0.09% per annum, making it the 10th strategy in its stable. The Macquarie Core Australian Bond Active ETF (ASX: MQFI) debuts ...

UniSuper hires former TelstraSuper's head of retirement

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2026
... 2015 and joined TelstraSuper in the same year, serving in various leadership positions, including heading its retirement, product, and member services divisions. TelstraSuper merged with Aware Super in May, some nine months after it first announced that ...

ETF Shares offers new currency hedged ETFs

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2026
... companies. "Advisers have told us that currency hedging is particularly useful as there isn't an equivalent US-listed product they can simply buy themselves," Man added. "These are Australian-listed ETFs designed specifically for Australian investors. ...

Asset managers turn to outsourcing, AI: Survey

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2026
... more selective about where they deploy resources amid market volatility, fee pressures and rising operational complexity. Product expansion has fallen as a strategic priority, with 47% of respondents citing it compared with 60% in 2024, while the proportion ...

Trading 212 to offer Australians low-cost trading to global markets

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2026
... We've taken the opposite approach, we pay 5.2% back to clients on their AUD cash, and it's a permanent feature of the product, not a promotional rate that gets wound back after a few months," he said. "Sixteen global exchanges puts us well ahead ...

ART leads retirement product race, others wrestle with covenant

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2026
... leads the pack in the take-up of longevity products. Furthermore, ART's account-based pension and lifetime income product are a use case for being able to provide "the closest thing the Australian market has to real-world evidence on whether members ...