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Barings nabs Challenger's fixed income lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
... portfolio manager on flagship vehicles including the CIM Credit Income Fund and the CIM Multi-Sector Private Lending Fund. These funds span both public and private credit markets. He joined Challenger in 2005 as an analyst before moving into the investment ...

Geoff Lloyd to lead Perpetual wealth spin-off

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
... acquisition by Bain Capital. Earlier this week, Bain agreed to buy Perpetual Wealth Management, which has $21.9 billion in funds under advice, in a deal worth roughly $550 million. Lloyd, a high-profile figure in wealth management, has led both Perpetual ...

Fund manager red flags founders' massive pay packages

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
... Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) Conference in Sydney, Emma Fisher, the deputy head of Australian equities at Airlie Funds Management, shared poignant lessons she's learned as a professional investor from founder led and non-founder led companies. ...

Government looks to better define roles of regulators

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
... issue which has been on the public agenda for a long time. It's a complex issue," Mulino said. "We know that managed funds, managed investment schemes (MIS) in particular, play a very important role in collective investments. They play a critical ...

Ironbark brings businesses under one national banner

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026
... global investment managers to develop solutions for wholesale and institutional investors, while its trustee business builds funds and managed accounts in partnership with fund managers, consultants, advice firms and platforms. "Over the past 15-plus ...

Treasury opens Div 296 tax regulation consultation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026
... affects the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997, which imposes new taxes under Division 296. The consultation covers how super funds will attribute fund earnings to individuals and sets out how to calculate earnings for defined benefit interests. Furthermore ...

'We've let our members down': Watson

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2026
... insurance claims not being paid promptly. Secondly, members are finding it really difficult to get through on the phone to some funds." Watson said continued consolidation in the industry hasn't delivered what it should have to members. "It's time ...

ETFs grow in popularity for SMSF investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2026
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are quickly becoming a dominant feature of self-managed super funds, with financial advisers increasingly turning to them for diversification. According to an analysis of SMSFs on the AUSIEX platform, about 44% of advised ...

Active equity managers underwhelm in 2025: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2026
... Australian active managers' performance in 2025 proved to be "underwhelming," notably in global equities whereby 70% of funds underperformed the assigned benchmark, SPIVA's 2025 Scorecard revealed. Despite relatively resilient results in the first half ...

L1 Group eyes golden returns with new LIC

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2026
... last year through the merger L1 Capital and Platinum Asset Management. The newly formed entity reported a rise in total funds under management ( FUM) to $17.6 billion across its strategies as at December 2025, driven by net outflows offset by positive ...