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Massive Acenda job cuts ire former staff

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2026
... Resolution Life respectively, have left the business. Craig Dunn serves as the group's chair, while Karen Malzard was named group chief risk officer. The FSU stated most of the redundancies "appear to have affected workers from the MLC Life side ...

Active equity managers underwhelm in 2025: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2026
... underperformance rate of 40% - the lowest since 2013. Some 77% of the constituents in the S&P/ASX 200 A-REIT outperformed. Goodman Group - which averaged 39.3% of the index's weighting - underperformed the benchmark by 21.5%. "Globally, stocks moved ...

L1 Group eyes golden returns with new LIC

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2026
L1 Group plans to raise up to $1 billion for the new L1 Gold Fund Limited and intends to list it on the ASX with the ticker code LGF. It has invited investors to apply for up to 500,000,000 shares at a price of $2 per share. It expects to commence trading ...

Index managed portfolios still most popular among advisers: North

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2026
... its investment menu with the launch of the cornerstone private markets managed portfolio in partnership with Invest Blue Group. "Through our partnership with Russell Investments and Ironbark and North, we have now co-designed, built, and launched a Private ...

Clime offloads advice business, keeps 10% stake

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2026
Clime Investment Management is offloading its financial advice unit for $6.5 million to an unnamed group but will retain a 10% interest in the newly combined business. Clime Advice, which has $2 billion in funds under advice (FUA), will continue to ...

Bain Capital to acquire Perpetual's wealth management unit

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2026
... agreement that will see Perpetual license its Perpetual Wealth and Perpetual Private brands to the Perpetual Wealth Management Group for a period of 15 years. Perpetual will continue to own all rights to the Perpetual brand. Bain Capital Private Equity ...

First Super names acting chief executive

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2026
... than 20 years of superannuation experience, including as chief executive of the Superannuation Trustee Office for Guild Group, an executive of ESSSuper and the head of financial planning at Bendigo and Adelaide Bank. Everett will lead the fund while ...

AFCA expands scam-related complaints, publication rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2026
Expanding its jurisdiction, the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) will now publish the names of financial firms that do not meet determinations and investigate scam-related complaints involving receiving banks. AFCA now can publicise ...

Perpetual CIO jumps to Pinnacle

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2026
... affiliated investment managers, according to a release. Interestingly, last July, Pinnacle made a strategic investment in FinCap Group to support the launch of a private assets managed accounts platform for Australian financial advisers and their wholesale ...

AMP investment chief reshapes her team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2026
... investments from head of portfolio design and management, a role he held for around four years after joining from Pendal Group. There, he spent 12 years as a senior portfolio manager across Pendal's diversified funds, after nine years running fixed ...