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T. Rowe and Oak Hill launch flexible credit income fund

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025
T. Rowe Price and Oak Hill Advisors (OHA) have launched the Flexible Credit Income Fund AUD (OFLEX AUD), specifically designed for wholesale investors. OFLEX AUD leverages OHA's best ideas, seeking to deliver income by lending primarily to large cap ...

Barings appoints new head of APAC

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
Barings has appointed Alastair Wright as head of Asia Pacific (APAC), to start in the role in January 2026. Wright succeeds Duncan Robertson, who will retire after 17 years with the global asset manager. Wright has been with Barings for 20 years, most ...

Private credit funds downplay risks, pose risk to financial system: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
Private credit fund managers downplay the risks of their products and flout basic disclosures of the state of their investments, ASIC's investigation reveals, fearing they have the potential to harm investors, the sector itself and the broader financial ...

IFM Investors exits Australian PE strategy

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
IFM Investors has dumped its Australian private equity strategy to prioritise global investments. The decision comes after the fund manager has struggled to scale the local strategy. "This decision, whilst difficult was carefully considered and we believe ...

Hostplus slams Lendlease over $2bn fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2025
Hostplus has blasted Lendlease over its governance of the $2 billion Australian Prime Property Fund - Industrial (APPFI). The $130 billion super fund has been attempting to oust Lendlease as the manager of the APPFI and instate Mirvac in its place. ...

Invesco sells intelliflo to Carlyle Group

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
Invesco will sell financial advice technology provider intelliflo to Carlyle Group for US$200 million. Carlyle will spin off intelliflo's US-based subsidiaries as a standalone business called RedBlack, to be run by a separate management team. intelliflo ...

Salter Brothers acquires Causeway AM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
Salter Brothers has announced the acquisition of Causeway Asset Management as it expands its private credit business. Causeway is an Australian private credit fund manager with more than $600 million in assets under management and advice. Salter Brothers ...

Criminal attacks, human error drive data breaches

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
The number of data breaches reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) rose 25% in 2024; 54 or 9% of which occurred at financial services organisations. New statistics from the OAIC show there was a total of 1113 notifications ...

Vision Super defends new but 'archaic' policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
Vision Super has defended a policy not to share member information to anyone it believes are located offshore, however the way in which the fund allegedly determines the location of an individual has caused a stir. Lifestyle Solutions Financial Planning's ...

Australian private capital sector totals $139bn: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
Total Australia-focused assets under management (AUM) remained steady at $139 billion in 2024, with private equity, venture capital (VC), and private credit funds accounting for nearly half at $65 billion, according to the Australian Private Capital ...