ASSET MANAGEMENT

Funds management

Asset managers may be encouraged to diversify their product ranges and branch into the retail or intermediary market but, two consultants argue, they may find it more com...

Funds management

With Q1 of the 2025 calendar year coming to a close, the Australian funds management industry has seen a range of major appointments and departures....

Funds management

The global alternative asset manager has welcomed an experienced distribution lead to its leadership team....

Funds management

Costs associated with the failed KKR deal have caused Perpetual’s statutory net profit after tax to more than halve to $12 million for the first half of FY25. ...

Funds management

Perpetual has released its Q2 fund flows showing a fall back into outflows after a positive Q1, as well as an update on its planned deal with KKR. ...

Funds management

Deal values for APAC asset and wealth management companies surged 76 per cent in 2024 to almost $100 billion, according to PwC, while three factors are driving growth for...

Funds management

Two Australian asset managers – K2 Asset Management and East Coast Capital Management – have each welcomed a female chief executive to lead the respective firms....

Funds management

Some 42 per cent of CEOs say they are actively reinventing their business to stay relevant in the next decade, with consumer services the most common choice for asset and...

Funds management

Moody’s has painted an optimistic picture for alternative asset managers in the year ahead, with lower interest rates and deregulation likely to prove supportive for thei...

Funds management

Expanded product ranges fuelled by M&A will be critical for wealth and asset managers to compete in 2025, according to EY’s wealth and asset management leader Rita Da Sil...

Financial planning

Insignia Financial intends to be the leading wealth manager by 2030 as it moves away from acquisitions to achieve $200 million in cost savings per annum over the next fiv...

Funds management

The competitive position of active managers is weakening and they will be unable to compete with passive players unless they diversify their product range, according to M...

Funds management

Perpetual’s new chief executive Bernard Reilly has told shareholders how he hopes to turnaround the firm’s asset management division with greater cost simplification and ...

Funds management

Perpetual has reported positive quarterly net inflows for the first time in 12 months, the first under the remit of new chief executive Bernard Reilly....

Funds management

The global financial services firm has taken on a second AFSL as it looks to capitalise on the high-net-worth market in Australia....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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