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Rumours swirl around Perpetual's wealth business sale

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... for the sale of its wealth business, which was initially announced in February. This comes as Bloomberg reported Oaktree Capital has secured private credit financing from Ares Management and Barings to acquire the wealth business. Perpetual acknowledged ...

Feature: Retirement | Rewarding risk

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... day. "That doesn't make sense and it's not very efficient, but many people are absolutely terrified of consuming capital in retirement." A secret weapon These are sentiments echoed by John Manserra, a senior financial adviser and director at ...

APAC insurers favour multi-alternatives strategies: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
Life insurers across the Asia Pacific are favouring multi-alternatives strategies as their top asset class as it offers a more efficient path to portfolio diversification across private assets, new research suggests. BlackRock's 2025 Global Insurance ...

WAM takes over PIA board, vows to lift underperformance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... strategy opening to a Pengana private credit feeder fund and entering an "ancillary risk sharing agreement with Pengana Capital Group (PCG)," which is the investment manager of PIA. In August, PCG proposed overhauling PIA's investment objective by ...

Australian Ethical appoints chief operating officer

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
Australian Ethical will welcome Anthony Lane as chief operating officer on November 10. Reporting to Australian Ethical chief executive John McMurdo, Lane will become a key member of the executive leadership team, responsible for overseeing day-to-day ...

Capital Group takes stake in Qualitas

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
Capital Group has acquired a substantial stake in Qualitas, taking over co-founder Andrew Schwartz's 15.1 million shares for about $52.9 million. Qualitas disclosed that the global fund manager took a significant stake in the company the day after Schwartz ...

Rest injects more into $1.2bn Fidelity climate fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
... stock, and the ongoing expansion of e-commerce and supply chain re-onshoring." So far, about two-thirds of the fund's capital has been deployed, and Fidelity expects the balance to be deployed in the coming months. "Securing €355 million of equity ...

Regal, Merricks invest $400m in South Australian infrastructure

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
Regal Partners and its subsidiary Merricks Capital will invest $400 million in the South Australian real estate market. The investment will be used to develop Market Square, a landmark area sitting alongside the Adelaide Central Market. Regal chief ...

ASX releases consultation on shareholder approval requirements

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
... Listing Rules must strike the right balance for all market participants, from the interests of an entity being able to raise capital flexibly to the interests of its securityholders not being unfairly diluted." ASX added that the consultation process ...

AustralianSuper pumps $1.1bn into fresh UK investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
... attractiveness of the UK as a global investment destination, with AustralianSuper on track to deploy more than £8 billion of new capital into the country by 2030. "With ambitious plans to scale, our new living sector platform is a clear demonstration ...