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EQT to acquire Coller Capital to form new secondaries platform

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2026
EQT is entering the secondaries market with the acquisition of Coller Capital. EQT will acquire 100% of the Coller Capital management company, the Coller Capital general partner entities which control the Coller Capital funds, and 10% of carried interest ...

Mercer's Helga Birgden departs after 18 years

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
Helga Birgden is leaving Mercer after 18 years as a partner and global chair for responsible investment. She plans to dedicate her efforts full-time to helping boards with sustainability and the circular economy, ending 25 years in the field for the ...

Gold soars over Trump's Greenland rhetoric

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
Safe-haven assets are being favoured by investors with gold prices skyrocketing off the back of US President Donald Trump's rhetoric around Greenland. Global X ETFs said it has seen average weekly flows into its suite of gold ETFs increase in 2026 as ...

Netwealth's APRA-mandated governance overhaul underway

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
Netwealth said its APRA-mandated investment governance overhaul is underway and is being led at the executive level. This was part of its agreement with ASIC in December under which it said it will repay $101 million to super members who accessed the ...

MA Financial backs FundBox's Australian expansion with $100m facility

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
MA Financial will support the expansion of FundBox, a US fintech platform helping small and medium businesses (SMB) get fast access to capital, into Australia through a $100 million lending facility to support its local warehouse infrastructure. FundBox ...

Danish pension fund dumps US bonds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2026
A Danish pension fund is divesting all US government bonds from February 1, citing the country's growing debt crisis. Akademiker Pension, the $36 billion pension fund for academics, is selling off all its US government bond holdings, to the tune ...

The revolving door of opportunities for advisers in 2026

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2026
The new year opens a window of opportunities for financial advisers amid a volatile global market and growing geopolitical tensions. One of the major opportunities in 2026 that is tipped to garner huge demand for financial advice is retirement. "There ...

Investment managers ramp up AI use in front offices

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026
Seventy percent of buy-side firms, including asset managers, pension funds and insurance companies, are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) in front offices, while more than half are scaling implementation. The 2026 Global InvestOps report from SimCorp ...

Commonwealth Super anticipates advice take-off

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2026
Use of a service that allows hesitant members to dip their toes in to receiving financial advice is expected to almost double in 2026, with 15% seeking intra-fund advice since the inception of its Super Specialist program. Commonwealth Superannuation ...

MWL complainants given $100k in lead decision outcome

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2026
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) has finalised its review of MWL Financial Services' lead decision, confirming the business, which is in liquidation, did not act in the complainant's best interest. In December, AFCA unveiled the ...