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AWAG enters joint venture with Phillip Capital

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025
The ASX-listed Australian Wealth Advisors Group (AWAG) has entered a strategic joint venture with Phillip Capital Australia, covering funds management and distribution. The joint venture allows for Armytage and AWAG products and services to be distributed ...

ASX announces changes following independent review

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... for more than two decades and I want to thank all those individuals who have generously given their time and expertise. I hope individual members will consider future involvement through the public consultation process that the new Advisory Group will ...

MLC Expand targets time savings with new AI capabilities

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
MLC's super and retirement platform, MLC Expand, is rolling out a slew of artificial intelligence (AI) automation tools that it says could save advice practices hundreds of hours per month. Over the coming months, MLC Expand is launching automation ...

Equity Story to raise $3.5m to enter property sector

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
Equity Story Group plans to raise up to $3.54 million through an entitlement offer to support the expansion of its funds management business, with a particular focus on entering the property sector. The stock market trading advice group will issue approximately ...

Feature: Compliance | Passing the buck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... it that these failures were never picked up, or at least not before a significant amount of money was lost. "My greatest hope for the future is that ASIC will now decide that there's no point relying on gatekeepers. If you're waiting on gatekeepers ...

Can IPOs ever recover? Experts aren't sure

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... timetable by up to a week. "[The sped up process] will help with better price discovery, giving comfort to investors, which we hope will be one step in the right direction of encouraging more listings, and that's been really positive," Isouard said. ...

PIMCO expands active ETF offering with EARN

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
PIMCO has launched the PIMCO Short Term Active Yield Active ETF (EARN), offering an alternative to traditional cash and term deposits by combining capital preservation and liquidity in a short-duration, actively managed strategy. EARN will invest in ...

HESTA hits $100bn in assets

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
HESTA has surpassed $100 billion in funds under management, which it hopes will help to bring down costs and deliver sustainable returns. HESTA's chief executive Debby Blakey said the increased scale helps the fund to access a larger and more diverse ...

AWAG to snap up 20% stake in First Mutual

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2025
ASX-listed Australian Wealth Advisors Group (AWAG) will acquire a 20% stake in licensee First Mutual, in a bid to expand its AFSL and licensing services. The investment is on a cash basis and First Mutual will retain its autonomy and ownership structure ...

Platinum LIC turns down WAM bid

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... have rejected Wilson Asset Management's (WAM) bid to be the investment manager of the listed investment company (LIC) in the hope of replacing Platinum Asset Management. WAM flagged its intentions of becoming the investment manager in mid-August, additionally ...