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WAM takes over PIA board, vows to lift underperformance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
Wilson Asset Management (WAM) has successfully taken over the board of the Pengana International Equities (PIA) LIC in the hope of overhauling its investment strategy amid continued underperformance. WAM's Geoff Wilson and Jesse Hamilton, and Richard ...

ASIC slaps MWL adviser with ban over Shield involvement

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... four advisers in July. On August 25, ASIC cancelled MWL's Australian financial services licence (AFSL) and banned its director and responsible manager. Since February 2022, funds totalling more than $480 million have been invested in Shield by at least ...

ASIC issues interim stop orders to TruePillars

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
... however his LinkedIn shows he stepped down from this role in June and is currently on sabbatical. He remains an executive director and responsible manager. ASIC noted that the interim orders are to protect retail investors from acquiring products under ...

Pinnacle names head of client solutions

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
... recently at Zenith Investment Partners for 23 years. He was a co-founder and served as both chief executive and investment director in that time. He left the firm in September. In his new role, Wright will be responsible for supporting Pinnacle's global ...

Acenda confirms leadership team

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
Acenda Group has assembled its leadership team, to be effective upon completion of the merger between MLC Life and Resolution Life Australasia at the end of the month. Sean McCormack has been appointed group chief commercial officer. He will oversee ...

AustralianSuper pumps $1.1bn into fresh UK investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
... country - building a stronger economy that works for, and rewards, working people." AustralianSuper senior investment director, real assets Vicky Stanley said there are attractive fundamentals underpinning the UK living market that position it well for ...

AWAG enters joint venture with Phillip Capital

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025
... infrastructure in the domestic financial services industry. Under the joint venture, Phillip Securities Australia's non-executive director John Miles has joined the investment committee that is overseeing operations of the Armytage Micro Cap Activist ...

Qualitas co-founder trades in equity for $53m

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025
Qualitas group managing director Andrew Schwartz is offloading 15.1 million shares in the company he co-founded to rake in about $52.9 million. Schwartz is selling about 5% of his total stake to an unnamed large global listed equities manager. He told ...

More suitors line up for Iress

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... to a binding transaction." Blackstone and Thoma Bravo expressed interest in acquiring Iress in August. Iress managing director and chief executive Marcus Price announced he will be exiting the company in the same month. In the lead up to that, deputy ...

Bravura appoints new chair, deputy chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... taken over as chair while Damien Leonard was named deputy chair. Based in Perth, Baskerville is the founder and managing director of IT solutions provider Empired Limited. He has been on the board as an independent director since February 2023. He also ...