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Platinum pushes for L1 Capital merger ahead of EGM

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2025
... listed on the ASX with a new L1G ticker code. "All in all, 2025 was a challenging year but culminated in the opportunity to advance Platinum's reset plan and reposition the firm to improve shareholder returns through the proposed merger with L1 Capital," ...

FEATURE: Problem detected

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
While financial services organisations may be comfortable with taking risks, certainly when it comes to investing, there are other types of risks they're not so familiar with. It may be 2025, but we continue to consistently see examples of organisations ...

HMC Digital Infrastructure appoints new senior executive

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025
HMC Digital Infrastructure (HMC) has appointed Michael Juniper as a new senior executive on the board of HMC Digital Infrastructure, and a director of the DigiCo platform. Juniper brings over two decades of experience in digital infrastructure, including ...

Ausbil launches active ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2025
Ausbil Investment Management has launched an active ETF version of its seven-year-old dividend income fund. As first flagged last year, the Ausbil Active Dividend Income Fund - Active ETF (DIVI) officially began trading. Debuting on the ASX today, DIVI ...

FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
Financial services firms stand at a pivotal juncture. Those in one camp, with their heads buried in the sand, can no longer ignore the fact that artificial intelligence (AI), particularly its sidekick generative AI (GenAI), is everywhere. The other ...

Fortitude Investment Partners expands team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
Private equity manager Fortitude Investment Partners has made a string of appointments this month, including an investor services manager who had worked at Allan Gray (South Africa) for more than a decade. Akyere Sobukwe-Whyte has been appointed as ...

Platinum banks on merger positives amid dismal FY25 result

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
... turnaround," managing director Jeff Peters said. "All in all, 2025 was a challenging year but culminated in the opportunity to advance Platinum's reset plan and reposition the firm to improve shareholder returns through the proposed merger with L1 Capital. ...

QIC harvests rare earth elements to turbocharge net zero transition

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
... neodymium, praseodymium, terbium, and dysprosium. These are used for electric vehicles, wind turbines, robotics and other advance manufacturing technologies. In all, QIC has invested $4.5 million towards the project. This will enable Ark Mines to progress ...

Future Group calls on super funds to push for bold emissions target

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
Ahead of the federal government deciding on its 2035 emissions target, Future Group has called for a 75% reduction on 2005 levels, which it said could unlock $20 billion a year in capital investment. New scenario analysis from Deloitte Access Economics ...

Vale Raymond Mason

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
Raymond "Chipp" Mason, the founder of Legg Mason, has passed away at the age of 88. He founded Mason & Co. in 1962 at the age of 25 after working in his family's brokerage business. In 1970, Legg & Co. acquired Mason & Co. to become Legg Mason. ...