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Top JBWere wealth leader heads to UBS

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2026
JBWere has lost a high-profile leader from its executive team, with Andrew Bird resigning after almost a decade with the firm. Over the past ten years, he led JBWere, National Australia Bank's wealth management arm, overseeing teams serving high-net-worth ...

ASIC imposes licence conditions on Cambridge Mercantile

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2026
... ASIC has imposed additional conditions on the Australian financial services licence (AFSL) of Cambridge Mercantile's local branch, following ongoing compliance failures in its foreign exchange derivatives business. The Corpay subsidiary misclassified ...

Federated Hermes enters local wholesale market

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2026
... stronger presence in the market." The launch advances Federated Hermes' ambitions of providing active investment strategies to local institutional investors and delivering stewardship services to Australia's major superannuation funds, it said. It also ...

Government to ask super funds to invest in defence infrastructure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2026
... co-investment with state governments and private sector businesses, contractors, investors, financiers or operators and with local councils." In accepting the recommendation, the government said it will develop an alternate financing framework consistent ...

RBA overlooked government spending in rate hike: Hearing

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2026
... the combination of private sector demand, which is consumption, investment, and public demand across federal, state and local governments. However, on Tuesday, Kennedy pointed to Treasurer Jim Chalmers referencing the RBA statement that makes no mention ...

KKR splashes $603m on HMC platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2026
... owns, and operates farm infrastructure for Australia's poultry supply chain. KKR also moved to acquire Zenith Energy, a local independent power producer, from a consortium that included Pacific Equity Partners, OPSEU Pension Trust and Foresight Group ...

Review launched into thin capitalisation reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2026
... said in a joint statement. "When multinationals exploit loopholes to pay less tax, they're gaining an unfair advantage over local businesses." As part of the independent review, the board will consider the overall performance of the amendments in strengthening ...

Former Perpetual executive takes helm at UBS AM

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
UBS Asset Management has tapped Perpetual's former chief distribution officer to lead its local business and oversee institutional clients. Adam Quaife takes over from Nick Hughes, co-country head and group chief operating officer for UBS Australia ...

ASX names members of new advisory group

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
... superannuation investors is represented. "Super funds are the largest shareholding bloc on the ASX, holding one third of local listed equities. That means 17 million Australians with super have a direct stake in the quality of corporate governance across ...

Zurich Australia offloads investment management business

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
... Investments' retail and wealth FUM in Australia to approximately $11 billion, while strengthening its presence across the local adviser market, it said. There will be no immediate change to the range of multi-asset, sector, and single-strategy funds ...