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APAC insurers favour multi-alternatives strategies: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
Life insurers across the Asia Pacific are favouring multi-alternatives strategies as their top asset class as it offers a more efficient path to portfolio diversification across private assets, new research suggests. BlackRock's 2025 Global Insurance ...

ASIC slaps MWL adviser with ban over Shield involvement

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
ASIC has banned Wade Spooner of Melbourne for eight years for advising his clients to invest their superannuation into the Shield Master Fund while he was an authorised representative of MWL Financial Services. Spooner, also a member of MWL's investment ...

First Guardian shaves $286m off Praemium FUA

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
Praemium has calculated the impact of its exposure to the First Guardian collapse, reducing its total funds under administration (FUA) by close to $300 million. Praemium reduced its FUA by $286 million in relation to First Guardian holdings in the September ...

ETF Shares flees Cboe for better 'connectivity'

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025
ETF Shares - launched last year on Cboe Australia with three distinct ETFs, all investing predominantly in the US - is transferring its ETFs to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). ETF Shares said the move will broaden accessibility across trading ...

More suitors line up for Iress

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
Iress flagged it now has more suitors vying to potentially acquire it in addition to Thoma Bravo and Blackstone. While Iress did not divulge how many other parties have entered the fray, nor did it name them, it did say that it made its "virtual data ...

AMP platform flows jump 61.6%

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
AMP has reported a rise of 61.6% in its platform net cashflows to $1.2 billion, up from $750 million last year. Platform assets under management also increased to $86.9 billion in the quarter. "In Platforms, the strength of the North proposition continues ...

Macquarie sells data centres in landmark deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
Macquarie Asset Management has pocketed more than $60 billion offloading Aligned Data Centers - the largest transaction to date for data centres. Macquarie sold Aligned Data Centers to a consortium comprising BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners ...

Feature: Compliance | Passing the buck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
The retirement savings of thousands of Australians have been lost in the First Guardian and Shield failures and, while investigations are ongoing, the blame for their collapse and the misconduct that led to it is being passed around like a football ...

Can IPOs ever recover? Experts aren't sure

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
Despite ASIC and the ASX having displayed a "good regulatory mindset" in revitalising the listed environment, opportunities from the private markets continue to drag initial public offerings' (IPOs) down. In a panel at the Citi Investment Conference ...

PIMCO expands active ETF offering with EARN

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... cash and money market funds - helping investors put their money to work while maintaining capital stability and liquidity," Sam Watkins, managing director and head of PIMCO Australia and New Zealand, said. EARN is suitable for both retail and advised ...