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MLC Expand targets time savings with new AI capabilities

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
MLC's super and retirement platform, MLC Expand, is rolling out a slew of artificial intelligence (AI) automation tools that it says could save advice practices hundreds of hours per month. Over the coming months, MLC Expand is launching automation ...

Equity Story to raise $3.5m to enter property sector

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... with existing shares on issue. It will allocate around $2 million to the development of the business, which includes the launch of new funds, seeding new investment products, enhancing operational and compliance systems, undertaking targeted marketing ...

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 ...

BlackRock looks to add Bitcoin ETF to local suite

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... Speaking to Financial Standard, Clearway Capital Solutions managing director and principal Dennis Mothoneos said that any launch of a digital asset-related product is always welcome - and the fact it'll be coming from a big name like BlackRock certainly ...

Former First Sentier PMs join Blackwattle

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... Blackwattle Investment Partners has taken in three of First Sentier Investors' (FSI) former portfolio managers who are set to launch a new strategy in 2026. Rudi Minbatiwala, Jason Moodie and Marlon Chan were all part of FSI's equity income team until ...

PIMCO expands active ETF offering with EARN

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
PIMCO has launched the PIMCO Short Term Active Yield Active ETF (EARN), offering an alternative to traditional cash and term deposits by combining capital preservation and liquidity in a short-duration, actively managed strategy. EARN will invest in ...

Ausbil lists two global ETFs on ASX

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
... dynamic portfolio positioning, is well-suited to navigate today's volatile markets." The announcement follows the recent launch of the Ausbil Active Dividend Income Fund (ASX: DIVI) on the ASX in September. It also comes as the ETF market hit the $300 ...

Fortitude launches Small Cap PE Fund

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
Fortitude Investment Partners has launched a Small Cap PE Fund, targeting lower mid-market opportunities in private equity. The evergreen fund will invest in deal flows in health, digitalisation and technology, energy transition and food and beverage. ...

PGIM appoints two real estate business stalwarts

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025
... Australia, while Stuart Carr will join in December as head of real estate equity, Australia. The appointments follow the launch of PGIM's first dedicated Australian real estate debt strategy. Mellor brings nearly 30 years of experience in the debt market ...