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Aberdeen to terminate three funds

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
Aberdeen Investments is shutting down three funds due to declining investor demand, which has seen the funds diminish in size. The abrdn International Equity Fund, abrdn Multi-Asset Income Fund, and abrdn Multi-Asset Real Return Fund will be terminated ...

Fiducian FUA reaches $5bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
Fiducian Group's funds under advice (FUA) hit $5 billion in the 2025 financial year as net inflows from salaried and franchisee financial advisers reached $343 million. FUA grew 4% year on year from $4.8 billion across its Core, Auxilium and Badges ...

Special feature: Hunting for value

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
Markets have all but recovered from when 'Liberation Day' threatened a meltdown, and asset classes of all flavours are pushing to new highs. But with valuations ahead of fundamentals amid uncertainty, fixed income is in focus as investors look ...

PE firm sells CyberCX to Accenture

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
Accenture will acquire trans-Tasman cyber security firm CyberCX from private equity firm BGH Capital. Founded in Melbourne in 2019, CyberCX has about 1400 employees and provides consulting, transformation and managed security services, as well as offensive ...

Funds SA finalises investment team overhaul

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
Funds SA has finalised the restructuring of its investment team, shuffling several roles around and creating some new ones. The organisation, which manages the investments of 13 different super fund, endowment and insurer clients including Super SA ...

Magellan rebrands investment business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
In addition to overhauling its own look, Magellan Financial Group unveiled the new Magellan Investment Partners. Magellan Financial Group has refreshed its corporate branding, including a new logo, and rebranded its investment business as Magellan Investment ...

Mercer Super sued over 'longstanding and systemic' failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
Mercer Super allegedly failed to report seven investigations it undertook into serious member services failures, including one into premiums charged to dead members being refunded incorrectly. Lodged with the Federal Court today, the proceedings allege ...

ASIC calls out super 'leaders and laggards'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
ASIC commissioner Simone Constant has told super trustees more needs to be done to meet obligations under the Retirement Income Covenant. "We are three years into the Retirement Income Covenant now. Three years since trustees have been obliged by law ...

Adamantem Capital buys IT provider from EQT

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
EQT is selling Nexon Asia Pacific, acquired via its EQT Mid-Market Asia III fund in 2019, to Adamantem Capital. The transaction fees were undisclosed, and it is pending customary conditions and approvals. Founded in 2000, Nexon is a digital and IT services ...

PC suggests removing excessive entry requirements for advisers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
In its fourth of five papers addressing productivity hurdles in Australia's economy ahead of the government's Economic Reform Roundtable, the Productivity Commission (PC) has recommended paring back some of the entry requirements that have impacted ...