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PIMCO appoints local managing director

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
PIMCO has promoted a senior Australian fixed income manager to managing director, recognising his leadership in the local business. Adam Bowe, who heads Australian portfolio management and sits on the Asia-Pacific portfolio committee, joined PIMCO 14 ...

Aware Super hires from AustralianSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
Jessica Xu Smyczynski has jumped from AustralianSuper to Aware Super as senior manager, asset governance. At Aware Super, she will play a central role in asset governance, supporting the fund's investment strategy while helping ensure robust oversight ...

Geoff Lloyd to lead Perpetual wealth spin-off

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
Former Perpetual chief executive Geoff Lloyd will become executive chair of the fund manager's wealth platform following its recent acquisition by Bain Capital. Earlier this week, Bain agreed to buy Perpetual Wealth Management, which has $21.9 billion ...

Solaris prepares to launch LIC for income seekers

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
Solaris Investment Management has launched the Solaris Australian Equity Income Plus (ASX: SET), a listed investment company (LIC) designed to deliver monthly fully franked dividends for income-seeking investors. The shares for the LIC are expected ...

Fund manager red flags founders' massive pay packages

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
Spikes in remuneration among founders of ASX-listed companies are a red flag for one fund manager with nearly $9 billion in assets under management, actively pushing for fair and realistic pay structures. Speaking at this week's Australian Council of ...

Ironbark brings businesses under one national banner

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026
Ironbark will consolidate 15 businesses under a new single brand, Ironbark Financial Group. The parent company will operate sub-brands that include Ironbark Advice, Ironbark Private Wealth and Ironbark Investment Solutions. Ironbark Advice encompasses ...

Influx of data weighing on legacy systems

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026
As asset managers are inundated with an influx of data daily, Macquarie Group principal engineer Ranjit Singh told the 2026 AM Tech Day event in Sydney that legacy systems are standing in the way. Singh said legacy systems create a multitude of challenges ...

ASIC considers changes to net asset requirements

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026
ASIC is seeking feedback on options for increasing the net tangible assets (NTA) requirement for responsible entities of registered managed investment schemes. In addition, ASIC is looking at increasing the NTA requirements that apply to other fund ...

Another RBA hike in May 'not a done deal'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026
... explicit that this is a data-dependent path, not a predetermined cycle." Meanwhile, First Sentier Investors senior portfolio manager Ben Samuel believes a May hike is still on the cards. "Ordinarily, a central bank faced with a fresh conflict in the ...

'We've let our members down': Watson

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2026
... from growing retirement savings to a focus on becoming institutional fund managers." Watson said that while being a fund manager and growing members' retirement savings is part of the job, he said member services have taken a back seat. "The making of ...