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Platinum banks on merger positives amid dismal FY25 result

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
With assets and profits down 30% in the year, Platinum Asset Management's hopes of recovery are pinned on the L1 Capital deal and subsequent rebranding to L1 Group. Releasing its final annual results yesterday evening, Platinum Asset Management confirmed ...

WAM eyes Platinum LIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
Wilson Asset Management (WAM) is making a play to be the investment manager of a Platinum Asset Management listed investment company, offering a non-binding, indicative proposal. WAM is proposing to take over the investment management function of ASX-listed ...

Former Kerr Neilson staffer pleads guilty to insider trading

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
... Neilson's family office, Rodney Forrest, has been charged with insider trading and procuring others to trade Platinum Asset Management shares. At Sydney's Local Court yesterday, Forrest pleaded guilty to two counts of insider trading between ...

Platinum executives depart amid merger talks

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
Three executives at Platinum Asset Management have departed as the asset manager finalises its merger with L1 Capital. Platinum's head of investment Douglas Isles and head of institutional distribution Charlie Brooks have both exited the business ...

L1 Capital, Platinum merger inches closer to reality

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
L1 Capital and Platinum Asset Management are looking to finalise the terms of their potential merger. Following due diligence, L1 Capital and Platinum have slightly adjusted the terms of their agreement. In May, when the merger was first announced ...

Platinum merger no cure for active managers' challenges

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
A merger between Platinum Asset Management and L1 Capital may deliver scale, but it won't resolve the deeper structural issues dogging traditional active managers, including fee pressure and market share loss to passive investment vehicles like ETFs ...

Platinum mulls L1 Capital merger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
Platinum Asset Management is currently in discussions with L1 Capital to combine forces, a move that would create an $18 billion investment manager. Platinum Asset Management is considering merging with L1 Capital, confirming via the ASX it is discussing ...

Large financial firms falling behind on AI adoption

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... JANA, Deloitte, S&P Global Market Intelligence, Northern Trust, BNP Paribas, AMP, Australian Ethical and Platinum Asset Management, among others.

Financial services chips away at gender pay gap: WGEA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
... At a company level, fund managers appear to regress, with the likes of Magellan Asset Management and Platinum Asset Management reporting a 44.9% and 43.8% total remuneration pay gap on average. Betashares has a 41% total pay gap on average. There is ...

Global tech companies eyeing super funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025
... JANA, Deloitte, S&P Global Market Intelligence, Northern Trust, BNP Paribas, AMP, Australian Ethical and Platinum Asset Management, among others. Financial Standard is the official media partner for AM Tech Day, which will be held in Sydney on Tuesday ...