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Realm opens London office

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
Realm Investment House, the contrarian fixed income and private credit manager, has opened a London office and added a new managing partner to its team Harry Choulilitsas joins as head of Europe and will oversee the firm's global structured credit ...

Super moves: Mercer, AusSuper, Future Fund, VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
Padraig Brown has left Mercer after more than 14 years, ending his stint as New Zealand chief investment officer. He is joining NZX-listed Precinct Properties, the country's largest commercial property owner, worth about $3.4 billion. At NZX-listed ...

Evidentia hires from Vanguard

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
Evidentia Private has hired a Melbourne-based senior asset consultant to look after financial advice firms in Victoria and Tasmania. Matthew Cho joins from Vanguard, where he was most recently head of its multi-asset solutions business in Australia. ...

Monetary policy decisions now 'more difficult': Bullock

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
Following an interest rate hike at the start of the month and higher than hoped inflation data this week, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Michele Bullock said the central bank is doing its best. Speaking at an event in Melbourne last night ...

Equity Trustees lands new mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
Equity Trustees (EQT) has been appointed Responsible Entity for the new River Capital High Conviction Fund. The fund, available to institutional and wholesale investors directly, and to retail investors via platforms, provides access to a focused portfolio ...

Strategic simplification lifts ClearView's profits

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
ClearView has reported a 77% increase in underlying NPAT of $22.1 million in the first half of the financial year, citing "disciplined strategic simplification and transformation" as the driver of the growth. Underlying NPAT for the life insurance business ...

GBST aims to capitalise on innovation with new hire

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
GBST has named an AI transformation lead to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) across its global operations and product suite. Based in Sydney, Jai Swaminathan has joined the digital solutions provider in the newly created role ...

Former Mason Stevens investments lead sets up own OCIO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
A new outsourced chief investment office (OCIO) has been established by Mason Stevens' former chief investment officer, launched in partnership with Fiduciary Partners. Jacqueline Fernley has founded arcpoint OCIO, a dedicated resource for advice practices ...

Iress sticks to simplification plan, will consider "bona fide" takeover bids

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
Iress is firmly focused on simplifying its software portfolio, centering it around wealth and trading and market data, while saying it will consider any bona fide takeover proposals consistent with its fiduciary duties. It has reported a profit of $79.3 ...

Inflation rises 3.8%, rate rise 'firmly in play'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 3.8% in the 12 months to January 2026, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). "The 3.8% annual CPI inflation to January was unchanged from December," ABS head of prices statistics Michelle Marquardt ...