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Blue Owl says its private credit loan books remain healthy

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2026
... In the last month, US private credit funds received a wave of redemption requests on worries these loans majorly back software companies, which have dropped in value as equity markets reevaluate them in the wake of the AI revolution. Early this week ...

Bailador pumps millions more into DASH

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2026
... excluding the fresh investment. Bailador first backed DASH in 2024, giving it $20 million towards plans to accelerate its software and platform technology, while also growing its team. Earlier this year, DASH appointed Sarah Murray as chief product officer ...

AI layoffs a correction from overhiring: Morningstar

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2026
... incentive worth keeping in mind: reframing the company's posture from a defensive to an offensive one. "If I was a software chief executive, with investors demanding to know why my business was not going to be disrupted by AI, attributing a redundancy ...

Geopolitical risks, private credit threaten financial stability: RBA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2026
... capped withdrawals. "Concerns have also grown among investors around private credit and private equity exposures to the software industry, where valuations have come under pressure in the face of potential disruption from AI-based competition," the RBA ...

Entireti taps AI to centralise advice data

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
... gather, analyse and organise data from an advice practice's existing technology, including emails, financial planning software and apps, to create a central knowledge base of information and insights. Entireti said this knowledge base will feature deterministic ...

AMP investment chief reshapes her team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2026
... AMP's retirement solutions team as a senior product lead. Gil joins from DASH, where she served as product manager for software and digital advice for four years. Previously, she worked at Equity Trustees and Partners Wealth Group. AMP Investments ...

National Reconstruction Fund makes $200m investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2026
... businesses, critical infrastructure sectors, and government agencies. The company's integrated technology stack - combining software, platform assembly and operations - enables customers to securely store, process and protect sensitive data within Australia. ...

Iress fills APAC wealth role from within

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026
Iress, the financial advice software provider, has promoted from within to fill the top role in its Asia Pacific wealth business, following the departure of a long-serving executive. Sam Wall has stepped into the role of acting chief executive, succeeding ...

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 ...

Blue Owl sells US$1.4bn assets to pension funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2026
... and include investments in 128 portfolio companies across 27 industries. The largest industry represented is internet software and services at 13%. The direct lending investments were sold at 99.7% of their par value. In the US, a business development ...