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Macquarie half-year profit rises to $1.7bn

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
Macquarie Group has a reported net profit of $1.7 billion in the first half of the financial year to September, up 3% on the same period last year. Assets under management rose by 5% from last year to $959.1 billion in September 2025. Macquarie Asset ...

Drummond appoints chief commercial officer

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
Drummond Capital Partners has announced the appointment of Caitriona Wortley as chief commercial officer, marking the evolution of her strategic growth lead role over the past four years with the firm. In the new role, Wortley will be responsible for ...

Key roles vacant as NZ Super prepares for growth

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... such as strategic tilting, and implementation and rebalancing, while Goodwin manages private markets, external mandates, direct investments and the data analytics team. The restructure marks a shift from a manager-based framework - where investments ...

Top Regal Partners exec departs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
The firm's head of international, Rebecca Fesq, has left the ASX-listed specialist alternative investment manager. "After six years working with the team at Regal, I have made the decision to step down from my role and embark on the next chapter ...

Prime Super fined over tobacco exclusion claims

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... deputy chair Sarah Court said. "Fund managers need to make sure that they accurately represent the nature of both their direct and indirect investments to allow consumers to make an informed choice." The fine was paid on October 31. Earlier this year ...

Member engagement lies in rewards, gamification: Whitepaper

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
Superannuation funds should be more innovative in boosting member engagement by offering tangible rewards and benefits that can lead to meaningful, repeatable interactions, according to a new whitepaper. The paper published by ASX-listed customer engagement ...

Metrics supports efforts to raise standards in private credit

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
Metrics Credit Partners has strongly supported ASIC's calls for the private credit industry to deliver enhanced standards and says it looks to play a leading role in the process. ASIC's deep dive into the private credit sector revealed fund managers ...

Private credit funds downplay risks, pose risk to financial system: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... capacity for independent verification." Research houses tend to prioritise governance structures and investment strategy over direct credit risk analysis and lack standardisation in valuations, which ASIC flagged is "raising concerns about transparency ...

Paradice lists mid cap strategy as ETF

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
Paradice Investment Management has launched an active ETF focused on Australian mid cap stocks on Cboe. Established in 2006, the fund's strategy has delivered actualised returns of 9.79%, outperforming its benchmark by 2.55% per year. Currently, the ...

Macquarie sells stake in South Australian asset to ART

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... via Australian Utilities Trust (AUT), alongside Utilities Trust of Australia (UTA) and ART, which has a combined 54.1% direct interest in ElectraNet. ART acquired TIF's stake via pre-emption, a process which was available to AUT co-shareholders, at a ...