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Australia misses out on global dividends growth

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2025
... resulting in an overall decline. The lower commodity prices in the mining sector also hindered dividend growth, despite most companies achieving double-digit or high single-digit increases. Capital Group head of client group, Australia Jorden Brown said ...

ECP names new partner

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2025
... in investments, prior to which he spent seven years at First Sentier in several investment roles, including emerging companies in Sydney and global infrastructure in London. ECP founder Manny Pohl said Warton's promotion reflects his excellent track ...

La Trobe has two of three stop orders lifted

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
... invests primarily into a portfolio comprised of senior secured first-lien term loans issued to US corporate middle market companies. It said these US companies are not rated by any rating agency and investing in these loans involves an above average ...

S64, Vista Equity Partners roll out unit trust

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2025
... in early 2026. Vista Equity Partners has US$100 billion in assets, targeting enterprise software, data and technology companies that range from small-to mid-caps. Some of its investments include Australia's StarRez and Energy Exemplar and Canada's ...

Colonial First State partners with MST Financial

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2025
... opportunities for trading based on market trends or significant events; as well as access, buy, hold, or sell notes for all companies under research coverage. Executive director of managed accounts Frances Taylor said: "In an environment flooded with ...

Federal court slams director for 'fanciful' asset valuation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2025
... Australian financial services licence (AFSL). This comes after ASIC brought action against Hodgson and Paladin Group companies MacroLend and Great Southland, of which Hodgson is the sole director. The court found Hodgson, MacroLend and Great Southland ...

BT launches new low-cost investment menu

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2025
... with Vanguard's investment expertise offers advisers a compelling solution to meet a wide range of client needs." Both companies described the collaboration as the next step in offering and delivering accessible, cost-effective, scalable solutions that ...

ASIC issues interim stop orders to La Trobe Financial

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2025
... The fund portfolio is primarily comprised of senior secured first-lien term loans issued to US corporate middle market companies. "These US companies are not rated by any rated agency and investing in these loans involves an above average amount of risk ...

FEATURE: Problem detected

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
... implementing AI-related security and governance controls, and just a quarter (24%) running cyber awareness training. Still, companies are generally confident in their ability to recover from a cyber incident. In the same report (Figure 1), 28% were 'very ...

Private markets, asset class correlations upending 60-40 portfolio

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
... "Investors in Australia are dealing with this public market challenge... Market breadth is low; the number of public companies is falling. Yet, markets are higher, and the number of companies are lower. So, that is lacking diversification opportunities ...