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FEATURE: Back in action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
... and typically over 50 years of age. "They are in the last stretch of their working years, have a nice home in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane and are on their way to paying off their mortgage soon," he explains. "They usually are reaching out because they ...

Natixis IM adds distribution leads

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2025
... institutional and private wealth clients. James Damicoucas joined as director of institutional sales this month. Based in Melbourne, Damicoucas was most recently a senior consultant at Frontier Advisors and spent more than five years at Zenith Investment ...

FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... person. But in this case, you can outsource it to AI, which is awesome." An April study by KPMG and the University of Melbourne found that nearly 65% of employees report that their workplace currently uses AI. Half of them lauded it for improving efficiency ...

AXA IM Alts expands affordable housing strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
AXA IM Alts is set to acquire a prime fringe-CBD development site on Adderley Street, Melbourne, to progress its built-to-rent affordable housing strategy further. The acquired site will be developed into a roughly 100-unit residential scheme providing ...

Inflation hits highest level in over a year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
... late October," he said. "If annual trimmed mean inflation only holds steady at 2.7% in the September quarter report, a Melbourne Cup rate cut could be a long shot. My expectation that annual trimmed mean inflation will drop to 2.5% - or at worst 2.6% ...

ASIC freezes assets of First Mutual Private Equity

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
... FMPE website does not disclose any details about its executive team, including Cotton. Additionally, Cotton is based in Melbourne, but the firm only has two listed office locations in Sydney and Singapore. According to the website, FMPE was established ...

ART raises stake in Tabcorp

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2025
... betting on sports, analysis of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey by The University of Melbourne shows. At the same time, Australia continues to have the highest gambling losses globally. Tabcorp's share price has ...

Vision Super divests G8 Education over abuse charges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... Education was charged with more than 70 child sex abuse offences allegedly involving eight children at a childcare centre in Melbourne. In the weeks since, the share price of the childcare operator has fallen more than 20%. The fund said the decision ...

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 ...

Decade-long ban for UGC director upheld

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
... (GCPF). The entity entered voluntary administration and was ordered to be wound up in October 2024. UGC was based in Melbourne and had held an Australian financial services licence since 18 August 2017. This was cancelled upon Hewish's banning. However ...