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Sequoia weighs InterPrac's fate, launches review

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2026
... await their fate. Already, head of licensee and adviser services Daryl Stout resigned effective February 17 via "mutual agreement" and as "part of a broader leadership and strategic reset." AFCA has received about 800 InterPrac-related complaints from ...

HUB24 posts record HY inflows, advisers on platform jump by 8%

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2026
HUB24 has reported a profit of $59.7 million in the first half of the financial year, up 80% from the previous year, and more than $10 billion in net inflows. It will pay a fully franked interim dividend of 36 cents per share for the period, doubling ...

Centrepoint offloads lending solutions business

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2026
... Financial Management to solely focus on licensee services, financial advice, managed accounts and platforms. Under the agreement, Centrepoint said it will retain the lending-as-a-service (LaaS) business, credit licence, and salaried brokers so that advisers ...

HNWs, retirees key battlegrounds for platforms: SuitabilityHub

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2026
The race to deliver the best solutions for financial advisers catering to the high-net-worth (HNW) and retiree segments will set platform providers apart, according to SuitabilityHub. The annual Platform Market Wrap Report revealed HNWs are the "strategic ...

Hostplus extends relationship with Melbourne Storm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2026
... National Rugby League team for a further three years, saying the partnership has supported its member growth. The new agreement sees Hostplus sponsoring the team through to the end of the 2028 NRL season, which would mark 23 years of partnership in total ...

Challenger-led consortium bids for Pepper Money

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2026
... about $21.4 billion in residential mortgages at the end of September 2025. Pepper Money signed a binding asset sale agreement to acquire the legal title to the loans and will be appointed as servicer of the portfolio.

Macquarie AM to acquire Last Mile Infrastructure and Energy Assets Group

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2026
... new homes by 2029, and bolstering connections for industrial and commercial properties, MAM said. Since the initial agreement between MAM and Infracapital in 2023, the number of connections Last Mile Infrastructure owns and operates across the UK has ...

Perpetual hit by $7.8bn net outflows in Q2

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
... parties continues to progress," Perpetual said. "While discussions are well advanced, there is no certainty that a binding agreement will be reached or that a transaction will proceed." Perpetual said it plans to provide another update to the market ...

Janus Henderson to acquire Richard Bernstein Advisors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2026
Janus Henderson has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of Richard Bernstein Advisors. Richard Bernstein Advisors is an investment manager focused on longer-term investment strategies that combine top-down, macroeconomic analysis and quantitatively ...

State Street enters strategic alliance with Qatar

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2026
... Corporation and QNB Group have announced a strategic alliance to introduce a new custody servicing model in Qatar. Under the agreement, State Street and QNB Group have agreed to collaborate, with service agreements to be finalised and executed at a later ...