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Super moves: Mercer, AusSuper, Future Fund, VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
... Brown's Kiwi responsibilities while the firm searches for a permanent replacement. Brown joined Mercer in September 2011 as head of real estate investment for Australia and New Zealand, managing a $3 billion-plus unlisted property portfolio before ...

Monetary policy decisions now 'more difficult': Bullock

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
Following an interest rate hike at the start of the month and higher than hoped inflation data this week, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Michele Bullock said the central bank is doing its best. Speaking at an event in Melbourne last night ...

Perpetual sees 349% profit jump

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
Perpetual has reported a 349% jump in net profit after tax to $53.9 million in the first half. It posted a jump of 12% in underlying profit to $112.7 million and delivered $60 million in annualised savings and is on track to achieve the targeted $70-$80 ...

Generation Life expands investment menu

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
... driven institutional portfolios, but without the complexity or barriers to entry that usually come with them," Generation Life head of product Vincent Stranges said. "That's exactly what this expansion to our investment menu is designed to achieve." ...

Capital Group appoints ETF lead for APAC, Europe

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
Capital Group has appointed Jim Goldie as the head of ETF capital markets for Europe and Asia-Pacific. Based in London, Goldie will lead the development of Capital Group's ETF capital markets function for the two regions. Goldie joins Capital Group ...

Former Mason Stevens investments lead sets up own OCIO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
... Management, Magellan Financial Group, Wilson HTM and Colonial First State Global Asset Management. More recent roles included head of equities at JBWere and chief growth officer at Investible. Other notable members of the arcpoint OCIO team include AMP ...

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

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
Iress is firmly focused on simplifying its software portfolio, centering it around wealth and trading and market data, while saying it will consider any bona fide takeover proposals consistent with its fiduciary duties. It has reported a profit of $79.3 ...

Unintended consequences of passive investing materialise: MFS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
... short termism and the erosion of long-term value creation, MFS Investment Management warns. Carol Geremia, president and co-head of global distribution at MFS, echoed the dangers of excessive passive investing that the late Vanguard founder John Bogle ...

Inflation rises 3.8%, rate rise 'firmly in play'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
... to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). "The 3.8% annual CPI inflation to January was unchanged from December," ABS head of prices statistics Michelle Marquardt said. "Trimmed mean inflation was 3.4% in the 12 months to January 2026, up from 3.3% ...

Sequoia weighs InterPrac's fate, launches review

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2026
... InterPrac advisers from their platforms. Sequoia's licensee and adviser services division both await their fate. Already, head of licensee and adviser services Daryl Stout resigned effective February 17 via "mutual agreement" and as "part of a broader ...