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'Going corporate' key to family business success: KPMG

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... M&A activity, with 60% of targets being other family businesses, which has started to attract outside investors. "Private equity firms are becoming increasingly interested in supporting the growth of family businesses and are looking to provide essential ...

Family offices to splash cash in APAC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
... report found the region had the smallest proportion of passive investors - just 22% of family offices are managing their equity portfolios passively. This is compared to the US, where it's most common, at 56%, and the global average of 36%.

ASIC accuses Kalkine of providing unlicensed advice

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
... compliance consultant to address concerns its customer service representatives have been giving unlicensed advice. Kalkine is an equity research house which produces stock analysis and buy, hold and sell reports via a subscription service for retail ...

Escala poised to overhaul strategy

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... efficiency. It is understood that Escala and Focus are working through their management agreement and sorting how to deal with equity holders as they move to full ownership. However, Escala's vice-chair Chris Selby has denied any June departures ...

MA Financial eyes acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... since 2019," MA Financial said. MA Financial also confirmed that should an acquisition proceed; it would not involve an equity raising. "No binding documentation has been entered into and there is no certainty that these discussions will result in a ...

Wealth management has never looked better: Knox

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... you think 10 years ago, five years ago and today, you can see a big shift... What we're beginning to see is private equity coming into Australia and starting to buy into businesses that give advice. That's a very big shift if you think about ...

J.P. MAM slashes recession probability to 30%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... beginning of the year, the fund manager was long equities, particularly US equities. But since Liberation Day, its overall equity position has moved from overweight to neutral, maintaining small, long positions in Europe, UK and Japan - effectively diversifying ...

Alternatives spark 'real' opportunities for HNW advisers

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... alternatives will be well positioned to add value and differentiate their offer." Further, among the asset class, private equity remains a "common" holding, but there is growing interest in areas such as infrastructure, water rights, venture capital ...

Zenith to farewell co-founder, managing director

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... chief executive to make the move possible. He has since served as investment director. The business was acquired by private equity firm Five V Capital in December 2019 ; this was when Smythe exited. Less than two years later it was sold to London-based ...

Super funds covet more global equities: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... shows allocations to global shares jumped 173bps from June 2024, while investments in unlisted infrastructure and private equity each rose 27bps. Despite a prominent tilt to global equities, the analysis, led by J.P Morgan head of equity research for ...