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Macquarie to shed more than 240 investment options

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... Vertium Equity Income Fund, WCM Quality Global Growth Fund and the OC Dynamic Equity Fund were also closed to super investors. The move comes at the fallout of the Shield Master Fund. ASIC and Macquarie are now battling it out in the Federal Court as ...

Shield, First Guardian fallout calls for tougher scrutiny on research houses, licensee governance

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... even though over the years there have been regular occurrences of unscrupulous or dishonest fund managers defrauding investors armed with glowing or positive research reports, Shield and First Guardian are merely the latest iteration. Unless the system ...

Super funds raise stakes in US investments to US$1.44tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... on a case-by-case basis and in the best financial interests of members," SMC said. In February, modelling by SMC, IFM Investors and Mandala estimated that super funds' US$400 billion investment in the US at the time would grow to about US$1 trillion ...

FEATURE: Fund admin | Tight Ship

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... incumbents fall short. Apex Group launched in Australia in 2009 and acquired Mainstream Group in 2021, catering to 200,000 investors in the managed funds registry, as well as 200,000 super fund members. Apex Group regional head of Asia Pacific Nicholas ...

Local PGIM manager exits

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... experience spanning over two decades, Douglas previously worked as an institutional account manager at Principal Global Investors and, before that, held several roles at Franklin Templeton Investments, ING Investment Management Australia, Pendal Group ...

MA Financial sees record gross inflows

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... billion for the first nine months of the year, up 22% from the same period last year. The MA Redcape Hotel Fund, providing investors access to high-quality hotels, said it will acquire Plough Inn, a landmark pub in Brisbane's Southbank. The hotel portfolio's ...

Feature: Retirement | Rewarding risk

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... could potentially increase a person's Age Pension by $10,000 a year. 'I' is for inflation risk and while investors have been spared the ravages of inflation in recent decades, it is a risk which should still be planned for. Australian CPI ...

Pinnacle acquires stake in Advantage Partners

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... how they have supported their partners in responsibly scaling their strategies while maintaining strong alignment with investors. This partnership represents another step in the continued institutionalisation of our firm and supports our goal of building ...

Adviser banned after $11.3m loss

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... allowed the regulator to make the ban public. ASIC said Northcott used algorithms to conduct foreign exchange trading with investors' money. However, ASIC said it found that in March and April 2022, the Noon Investment Fund lost around $11.3 million. ...

'We have entered a new economic era': CBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) chief economist Luke Yeaman has warned investors that the world has entered a "new economic era" where the rules are "very different", in his most recent economic update. "Things that have been disdained in recent decades are ...