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EWM to buy three advice firms

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
... Financial Design led by principal Helen Postle; and Your Wealth Life, led by Megan Neale. These acquisitions follow recent mergers with Cairns-based MTP Financial and Wealthmed, located on the Sunshine Coast. In support of the new partnerships, MTP Financial ...

Super moves: HESTA, Nest, Resolution Life, NZ Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025
... role at Morgan Stanley, where she began her career in 2016. Barrow thanked colleagues for their support through "three mergers or acquisitions at last count", adding she will "take away fond memories of regular team games during Chapter meetings, programming ...

Super moves: ART, TCorp, Future Fund, QIC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... at JANA Investment Advisers, where she was part of the infrastructure research team. Before joining JANA, she worked in mergers and acquisitions at Macquarie Capital and also at Deloitte Corporate Finance. Kuleshova is the co-founder of Women In Investments ...

Brighter Super expands senior team

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... the fund's largest employers and partners. Brighter Super chief member officer Lisa Kay said: "After three years of mergers and acquisitions, our fund is now well placed to deliver on the promises we made to members and we will be out there with ...

M&A makes rebound, creating higher-value deals: Deloitte

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
Stronger balance sheets and lower interest rates are among the main drivers of renewed momentum in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), according to new research. Momentum is building again after a period of relative pause, Deloitte's The Deal in Focus ...

ASX releases consultation on shareholder approval requirements

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
... the research found that of all the relevant dilutive transactions in the past five years, 5% were regulated takeovers or mergers that potentially would have been eligible for exceptions from a shareholder vote. "While it is important that the Listing ...

Can IPOs ever recover? Experts aren't sure

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... Lyons agreed, stating that the market has diverged over the last five to 10 years, including the nuance of private-public mergers. "When we started with a lot of IPOs, the secondary market didn't really exist in Australia," Lyons said. "The private-public ...

Fortitude launches Small Cap PE Fund

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
... profitably which have also shown a clear competitive advantage, organic growth, and the potential for inorganic growth through mergers and acquisitions." Fortitude's chief commercial officer Chris Brookman said the lower mid-market private equity segment ...

Unprecedented US M&As a boon for Australia: BGA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2025
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the US wealth management sector have reached unprecedented levels over the last five years and the local sector is poised to benefit highly from this, according to Berkshire Global Advisors (BGA). Bomy Hagopian, a partner ...

Salary report shows 23% pay gap for top BDMs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025
... wealth managers," the Kaizen report stated. By contrast, openings in institutional distribution have slowed due to fund mergers and more super funds insourcing investment mandates. When survey respondents were asked why they would change jobs, 82% said ...