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DigiCo REIT names new chief executive, targets 30% growth

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
HMC Capital's DigiCo REIT wants to have contracted IT capacity of 27MW by June 2026, representing 30% growth from June 2025 across the Australian business, as outlined in its FY25 results. This comes as Chris Maher has been named chief executive, taking ...

Iress hunts for new chief, takeover talks progress

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
Iress is ramping up its succession plans to replace managing director and chief executive Marcus Price while in the thick of takeover talks with Blackstone and Thoma Bravo. Iress provided an update on Price's future with the company this morning, saying ...

Special feature: Hunting for value

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
Markets have all but recovered from when 'Liberation Day' threatened a meltdown, and asset classes of all flavours are pushing to new highs. But with valuations ahead of fundamentals amid uncertainty, fixed income is in focus as investors look ...

PE firm sells CyberCX to Accenture

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
Accenture will acquire trans-Tasman cyber security firm CyberCX from private equity firm BGH Capital. Founded in Melbourne in 2019, CyberCX has about 1400 employees and provides consulting, transformation and managed security services, as well as offensive ...

WAM eyes Platinum LIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
Wilson Asset Management (WAM) is making a play to be the investment manager of a Platinum Asset Management listed investment company, offering a non-binding, indicative proposal. WAM is proposing to take over the investment management function of ASX-listed ...

Iress adds AI chief to drive innovation

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
Iress is strengthening its focus on artificial intelligence (AI), welcoming an inaugural chief AI officer. Based in Iress' Sydney office, Daniel Ashley has commenced his role and will take charge of its cross-functional team focused on leveraging AI ...

Unemployment falls, more women enter the workforce

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 4.2% in July, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). "With employment rising by 25,000 people and the number of unemployed decreasing by 10,000 people, the unemployment rate ...

Funds SA finalises investment team overhaul

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
Funds SA has finalised the restructuring of its investment team, shuffling several roles around and creating some new ones. The organisation, which manages the investments of 13 different super fund, endowment and insurer clients including Super SA ...

Magellan rebrands investment business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
In addition to overhauling its own look, Magellan Financial Group unveiled the new Magellan Investment Partners. Magellan Financial Group has refreshed its corporate branding, including a new logo, and rebranded its investment business as Magellan Investment ...

Mercer Super sued over 'longstanding and systemic' failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
Mercer Super allegedly failed to report seven investigations it undertook into serious member services failures, including one into premiums charged to dead members being refunded incorrectly. Lodged with the Federal Court today, the proceedings allege ...