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Regal writes off Opthea, FUM takes 8% hit

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... firm at the end of January. On March 31, ASX-listed Opthea announced it ceased the two major trials: COAST (Combination of OPT-302 with Aflibercept Study) and second Phase 3 trial ShORe (Study of OPT-302 in combination with Ranibizumab) in patients with ...

Cbus plays it steady amid rocky start to the year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
After a stretch that's favoured equities, particularly passive strategies, which hasn't bode well for active management or diversified portfolios, the tide is beginning to turn, according to Cbus deputy chief investment officer Leigh Gavin. Gavin said ...

Perpetual to build digital wholesale term deposit marketplace

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
Perpetual Corporate Trust will begin operating a digital marketplace offering debt instruments, kicking off with wholesale term deposits. The Corporate Trust business has been granted a market license in Australia enabling it develop a fully electronic ...

Lakehouse Capital lists first fund on ASX

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025
Boutique investment manager Lakehouse Capital, which manages $600 million, has listed its Global Growth Fund on the ASX today, its first publicly traded offering. Lakehouse Capital co-founder and chief investment officer Donny Buchanan said that listing ...

Members press super funds for sustainable investments

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
Members increasingly demand superannuation funds to provide ethical investment options, particularly retirees who want to leave a more sustainable world for the next generation, top super fund leaders say. Attending the Australian Council of Superannuation ...

The tax system is being weaponised to inflict abuse, ombudsman says

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
Over two million Australians, mostly women, have suffered financial abuse at the hands of an intimate partner, sometimes through the weaponisation of the tax system, with impacts that can be "devastating and long-lasting" to survivors and their families ...

ASIC tiptoes around private markets intervention

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
ASIC chair Joe Longo is keeping all options open before the corporate watchdog is forced to intervene in the private markets, he told the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) this morning. Longo said ASIC is prepared to engage with ...

Otivo launches AI-powered advice tool

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
Otivo has launched a new AI-powered advice tool that will give Australians "licensed financial advice" named Ask Otivo. The digital advice platform said the two-way, real-time advice tool is Australia's first AI-powered platform that will provide personalised ...

Talaria taps Equity Trustees as RE for three funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
Talaria Asset Management has appointed Equity Trustees as the responsible entity of its three global equity funds. The appointment covers the asset manager's dual access Talaria Global Equity Fund Complex ETF (Cboe: TLRA), the Talaria Global Equity ...

Qantas Super, ART merger official

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2025
Qantas Super and Australian Retirement Trust (ART) officially merged on March 29. About 25,000 members with $9 billion in funds under management (FUM) have moved from Qantas Super to ART. Qantas Super chief executive Michael Clancy said: "It has been ...