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Mercer promotes wealth management lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
Mercer Pacific has promoted Luke Fitzgerald, its head of wealth management, to partner. In the announcement, Mercer emphasised Fitzgerald's significant role over the past 15 years in expanding the firm's wealth management client base and supporting ...

Mantis to distribute new micro cap offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
Mantis Funds has secured a distribution deal with Balmoral Investors, taking its micro cap strategy to market. Mantis Funds will distribute the Balmoral Investors Micro Cap Fund to wholesale investors, offering access to quality ASX-listed micro caps ...

Challenger posts mixed Q3 FY25 result

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
Challenger saw strong growth in annuity sales but its assets and funds under management fell in the third quarter of FY25. Challenger's funds under management were $115.2 billion, a $5.9 billion drop, mainly due to negative market movements, but also ...

Centrepoint Alliance to acquire Brighter Super's advice book

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
Centrepoint Alliance has entered into an agreement to acquire the comprehensive advice book from ESI Financial Services, a wholly owned entity of Brighter Super. The transaction will see up to 400 clients, generating $1 million in annual revenue, transition ...

Japan's first digital investment platform for private assets goes live

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
Tokyo-based financial services firm Keyaki Capital has launched what its describes as a "first of its kind" online platform to exclusively offer private equity, private credit, and other private asset investment funds to Japanese high-net-worth investors. ...

IAM to bring managed account with syndicated loan access to market

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
The ASX-listed manager's new managed account provides access to the institutional corporate syndicated loan market, offering an "attractive alternative" to traditional private credit funds. The new Income Asset Management (IAM) offering provides private ...

GESB expands leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
GESB, the super fund for Western Australia's public sector, added a former HESTA executive as its chief member experience officer, while also welcoming a chief corporate services officer. Both are newly created roles for GESB, which is undergoing ...

Apex awarded $2.3bn fund admin mandate

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
Apex Group has been appointed to provide fund administration and transfer agency services for four retail products of an Australian credit manager, effective today. Mutual Limited will transition administration of the Mutual Cash Fund, Mutual Income ...

First Sentier to enter Australian ETF market

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
First Sentier Investors is expecting to list its first exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the ASX in mid-May. The listing of the First Sentier Geared Australian Share Fund Complex ETF (ASX: LEVR) will provide advisers and investors with listed access to ...

Aware Super spends $1.6bn on Australia's 'largest' intermodal terminal

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
Aware Super has committed $1.6 billion to the Melbourne Intermodal and Industrial Exchange (MIIX) precinct to support expanded capacity and the creation of 3000 jobs. MIIX, which includes the nation's first privately funded open-access intermodal freight ...