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ASX-listed companies at breaking point: Alvarez & Marsal

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2025
... (EMEA) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), drawing on financial data from 563 of over 1537 listed companies in Australia. The report indicates that distress levels among listed Australian companies have been climbing since FY21 (9.8%) ...

Mark Delaney to step down from AustralianSuper

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... holdings disclosure well before it was a regulatory requirement, playing a more active role in the stewardship of investee companies, and bringing more investment management in house to help deliver better returns for members," Schroder said, adding ...

BlackRock loses $8.9bn pension fund mandate

MATT TOLEDO  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... asset managers to leave. "As part of our strategy to invest for a good pension, we make deliberate choices about the companies included in our equity portfolio," PME's announcement stated. "We aim for a portfolio with a limited number of stocks, enabling ...

Why a single insto client is a massive business risk

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... is that size becomes an enemy of performance. As the fund gets bigger, it either has to own more stocks or own larger companies. So, it starts looking a bit more like the index and becomes more generic over time," Entchev said. The bigger a fund becomes ...

Three megatrends to watch in 2026

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2025
... but it seems - for now - a bubble is not likely. "The cases for [a bubble] is very special valuations, a handful of companies, a high concentration risk in those companies, a circle of financing going around, media, FOMO, all that says 'bubble'," Mullins ...

South Korea looks to Australia for next sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... manages foreign currency assets. The new fund will be able to invest more broadly, including "proactively acquiring good companies overseas through M&A and investing in domestic ventures". It said it will divide the investments into direct equity investments ...

Hearts & Minds, WAM slash stakes in Corporate Travel Management

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... nearly 12%. Bennelong Australian Equity Partners had 9.2%, First Sentier Investors' Australian Small and Mid-Cap Companies had 6.21%, AustralianSuper had 6.2% and ECP Asset Management had 5.2%. More recent figures, though, showed that AustralianSuper ...

FEATURE: Private credit | At the precipice

GLENDA KORPORAAL  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... who are investing or thinking of investing in the US private credit market, particularly in lending to middle-market companies. "They range from a variety of public and private institutions, as well as investors across wealth platforms," he says. Based ...

Australian Ethical adds trader and BDM

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... 30th anniversary, delivered a 12.5% return since inception, outperforming the S&P/ASX 200 at 10%. Notably, the Emerging Companies Fund outperformed the S&P/ASX Small Industrials Index by close to 5% per annum over the decade to 30 June 2025.

Mulino looks to reform CSLR

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... part of that process, I'm going to look at other possible sources of funding. So, that would include the parent companies of financial advisers as one possible option. It would include high-risk MISs, and I know that some of the stakeholders may ...