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Magellan to merge with Barrenjoey for $906m

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2026
Magellan Financial Group will take its current 36% ownership in Barrenjoey Capital Partners all the way, inking a deal worth $906 million to merge the two firms. Under the new entity, Brian Benari will become the group chief executive. Sophia Rahmani ...

UK influencers fined over promotion of unauthorised forex scheme

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2026
... responsible influencers and go after those who put the financial wellbeing of their followers at risk," FCA executive director of enforcement and market oversight Steve Smart said. Commenting, law firm Lewis Silkin said the fines issued to the influencers ...

WT Financial Group focuses on B2B strategy as profits grow

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2026
... from cost management, technology, risk management and practice support capabilities, the firm explained. WTL managing director Keith Cullen said the result reflects the continued maturation of its transformation to a business-to-business (B2B) advice ...

Schroders nabs Oaktree exec to lead Asia sales

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
... product solutions, while Richard Young, the former UK head of institutional capital raising, has joined ICG as managing director of its client solutions group. Brookfield Asset Manager is acquiring the remaining 26% stake of Oaktree that it does not ...

Realm opens London office

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
... has an extensive background in origination, structuring, trading and syndication. He joins from Natixis, where he was a director responsible for syndication and investor distribution. He previously worked as a CLO trader at Mediobanca and as a structuring ...

Super moves: Mercer, AusSuper, Future Fund, VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
... performance across diversified property portfolios," Precinct said. Elsewhere, Shikha Gupta, Future Fund's executive director of alternatives, has been elected trustee of the Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI), the industry body promoting ...

Strategic simplification lifts ClearView's profits

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
... remains on track with FY26 guidance, subject to claims, lapse and expense assumptions being met in 2H26. ClearView managing director Nadine Gooderick said: "These advancements position ClearView as a technology-led, efficiency-driven, pure play life ...

Former Mason Stevens investments lead sets up own OCIO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
... as non-executive chair. Meanwhile, Fiduciary Partners was launched last year by former Colonial First State executive director, investment sales George Walker and former Longreach Alternatives head of distribution Alex Haynes. It's described as "a next-generation ...

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

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
... of $79.3 million in financial year 2025, a decline of 10.6% from the previous year. Iress chief executive and managing director Andrew Russell said: "We have successfully simplified the company into a focused wealth and trading and market data software ...

Governance issues on the rise: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
In the six months from 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025, the corporate watchdog received 9686 reports of misconduct (ROMs), raising 13,036 issues, new data from ASIC shows. ASIC said the increase in ROMs was driven largely by corporate governance concerns ...