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Vale Raymond Mason

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
Raymond "Chipp" Mason, the founder of Legg Mason, has passed away at the age of 88. He founded Mason & Co. in 1962 at the age of 25 after working in his family's brokerage business. In 1970, Legg & Co. acquired Mason & Co. to become Legg Mason. ...

CBA appoints head of Australian economics

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has announced Belinda Allen will take on the role of head of Australian economics after Gareth Aird left the bank in July. Allen will be responsible for developing the bank's Australian economic forecasts, views on the Reserve ...

Three portfolio managers exit Stewart Investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025
The exit of three key portfolio managers at Stewart Investors has thrown ratings of several funds they managed into disarray. Sydney-based senior portfolio managers David Gait and Sashi Reddy, and Singapore-based senior portfolio manager Sujaya Desai ...

Powerwrap drags Praemium performance, SMAs shine

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025
Praemium's separately managed accounts (SMA) business reported $610 million of net inflows while Powerwrap's outflows topped $299 million for the 2025 financial year. In addition to the SMA business, total funds under administration (FUA) was ...

ASIC freezes assets of First Mutual Private Equity

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
The Federal Court imposed urgent interim orders to freeze the assets of First Mutual Private Equity (FMPE) and its sole director Gregory Raymond Cotton, with ASIC concerned more than $50 million of investor funds is at risk. ASIC is investigating FMPE ...

APRA sets higher cybersecurity expectations for trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
Trustees' cyber-resilience is riding high on APRA's enforcement agenda over the next four years, but in the short term the regulator warned it will escalate action where necessary if they cannot prove to have basic measures in place. The prudential ...

Grattan calls for large scale tax reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
The Grattan Institute chief executive Aruna Sathanapally called for tax reform when presenting at the three-day Economic Reform Roundtable. "A good tax system raises the revenue to fund quality public services. A better tax system does that more efficiently ...

Perpetual flags $153.7m impairment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
Perpetual has flagged there will be a non-cash impairment charge of around $153.7 million, post-tax, in its FY25 results after completing impairment testing for the financial year. Perpetual said the non-cash charge includes an additional impairment ...

Global X ETFs on a hiring spree, readies for $12bn FUM

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
Global X ETFs can't seem to stop hiring, adding five new team members to its operations this month as its asset base tips over $11 billion in June, well ahead of its FUM target. Adding AI muscle to its technology team, Global X has hired David Croft ...

Mutual Trust appoints family office specialist

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
Mutual Trust, the country's largest multi-family office, recruits the founder of the Women in Family Business Network to join its expanding team. Susanne Bransgrove was appointed partner this month, to be based in Brisbane. Prior to joining the ...