Atrium Investment Management, part of Fitzpatricks Financial Group, has selected Russell Investments to enhance personalised investment solutions and opportunities for its clients.

MA Financial Group’s new listed investment trust has hit the ASX, while Wilson Asset Management confirms the upcoming launch of its ninth listed investment company.

Active management in fixed income remains a compelling strategy, leveraging market inefficiencies to generate excess returns and manage risk, often more effectively than passive alternatives, writes Adam Whiteley.

Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year.

Financial advice businesses are being urged to create an information memorandum for their practices to ensure they are “sale-ready” at all times amid the current opportunistic M&A climate.

The financial advice market remains very fragmented compared to other industries, according to Count chief executive Hugh Humphrey, and licensees need deep pockets if they want to scale up.

BlackRock has completed its acquisition of private markets research house and data provider Preqin, having first been announced last July.

Global X has appointed a former senior Selfwealth BDM to its sales team as it targets $11 billion in assets under management by the year’s end.

The latest gender pay gap data for Australia has flagged the ongoing challenges in pay equity in financial and insurance services, with women in the sector earning 22.2 per cent less than their male counterparts.

A global investment manager with more than $676 billion in AUM has announced a $345 million debt investment into Oaktree Capital-backed AZ NGA.