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Evidentia hires from Vanguard

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
... direct Australian equities team, Haydn Scott as principal of private wealth solutions, Chris Robertson as head of portfolio & risk management, and Josh Phillips as a senior asset consultant. The managed account specialist is owned by Generation Development ...

Super moves: Mercer, AusSuper, Future Fund, VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
... standards across alternative investments. As a trustee, Gupta will focus on transparency, manager-investor alignment, governance, risk management and operational resilience. She leads alternative strategies at the Future Fund and serves on its investment ...

Monetary policy decisions now 'more difficult': Bullock

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
Following an interest rate hike at the start of the month and higher than hoped inflation data this week, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Michele Bullock said the central bank is doing its best. Speaking at an event in Melbourne last night ...

Equity Trustees lands new mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
... take advantage of marketing inefficiencies or mispricing while managing short-term market volatility. "At River, we approach risk differently; we see risk as the potential for permanent capital loss, the failure to compound capital, or missing on stated ...

Perpetual sees 349% profit jump

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
... by more buoyant equity markets; however, this was offset by lower non-market revenue particularly in fiduciary markets and risk advisory," Reilly said. Perpetual also reported $58.8 million in significant items attributing it to the transaction costs ...

Unintended consequences of passive investing materialise: MFS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
The unintended consequences of the passive investing boom are materialising into ownership concentration, short termism and the erosion of long-term value creation, MFS Investment Management warns. Carol Geremia, president and co-head of global distribution ...

Inflation rises 3.8%, rate rise 'firmly in play'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
... market is currently pricing fewer than two hikes by end-2026, with the next as early as the May policy meeting. "We see a risk that the RBA turns more hawkish and exceeds market rate expectations. A more hawkish RBA is positive for the Australian dollar ...

Regal profits rise 65%, Pacific Current reports $11.7m loss

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2026
... of refinements across the business, including additional appointments to certain investment committees and changes to our risk management and portfolio construction process to limit single-stock concentration risk. "We believe the firm learned valuable ...

Channel Capital launches credit fund for wholesale investors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2026
... investors with access to a diversified portfolio of global credit investments, designed to deliver attractive long-term, risk-adjusted returns. The fund invests in the Wellington Multi-Sector Credit Fund, a sub-fund of the Wellington Management Funds ...

VFMC names chief finance, risk officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2026
... long serving Bennelong Funds Management executive is taking on the role. Jeff Phillips has been named as chief finance and risk officer at Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC), stepping into the role next month. Phillips is currently chief financial ...