Lachlan Reardon

Lachlan focuses on the asset management and wealth sectors, working with clients on M&A transactions, market entry strategy, product development and project management and delivery. Lachlan has experience working with clients across both institutional and retail segments.

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Role:

Partner

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Location:

Sydney

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Industry:

Asset Management | Wealth Management

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Knowledge By Lachlan Reardon

July 11, 2025

The engagement cliff in pensions decumulation

Industry efforts around pensions engagement focus almost exclusively on before- and at-retirement decisions. With pension drawdown requiring decision-making long after the first withdrawal, how can pension providers deliver ongoing support throughout retirement?

February 10, 2025

UK pension consolidation: lessons from Australia

As the UK government finalises mechanisms to encourage pension fund consolidation, Australia’s decade-long experience offers timely insights for funds facing strategic choices about their future. While the push for consolidation centres on creating larger, more efficient funds, a fundamental question remains: what truly constitutes better outcomes for pension members? The Australian journey provides valuable lessons on this critical question.

February 28, 2024

The growing Active ETF graveyard

In a retail market starved of growth opportunities, the prospects of new capital pools offered by active ETFs continue to entice asset managers. Despite a flurry of new entrants, few active managers have been able to gain genuine traction in the market.

December 14, 2023

Retail asset management: winners & losers

Large active managers have struggled to maintain pace with passive and niche-active providers in recent years. With a particularly difficult year drawing to an end, what will drive the competitive outlook over the next five years?

November 13, 2023

Advice: A multi-billion dollar opportunity

Australia’s latent demand for financial advice is worth over A$2.2bn annually. Meeting this demand would have a profound impact on the lives of millions of Australians but requires bold policy resets.

August 1, 2023

Industry Funds gain further traction in HNW

Industry funds’ dominance of Australia’s retirement system is widely acknowledged, though their infiltration of the HNW segment has stayed largely under the radar. This poses new challenges for retail competitors.

April 24, 2023

Active’s silver lining

On an outlook of healthy contestable flows, plenty of opportunity exists for well-positioned retail equity managers in Australia, despite industry headwinds and global sentiment.

March 13, 2023

Advice: Back to a better future

The recommendations of the Quality of Advice Review would force large institutions back to the table on advice, re-define digital advice models and have significant flow-on implications for customer-facing channels.

September 27, 2022

The Age of the Titans is upon us

There’s been a lot said over the past few years about “rise of the (superannuation) titans”. ‘The Titans’, having now well and truly risen, and with the contributing industry and regulatory conditions generally well understood, we thought it worth a discussion on what comes next.

September 13, 2022

A future industry structure

Advice propositions today are largely based on providing consumers with comprehensive advice (considering a wide range of the consumer’s financial needs, circumstances and products) on an ongoing basis and consumers have either accepted that or not engaged at all.

August 25, 2022

A bright future for active ETFs

It has been a tough start to the year for ETFs (and for asset management in general), headline flows into ETFs to H1 CY22 were down ~23% period-on-period, with market volatility testing the nerves of many investors. However, looking beyond the headline numbers, there’s still a lot to play for.

July 26, 2022

The complexity of performance fees

Performance Based Fees: a lot more complex than you’re likely giving them credit for, and that may come back to bite you…

May 25, 2022

A diamond in the rough

Global Fixed Income strategies could provide a (increasingly rare) refrain from the beleaguerment faced by institutional asset managers...

February 14, 2022

Institutional mandates face years of outflow

Large super funds are increasingly internalising asset management functions in a bid to cut costs. With industry consolidation quickening, most super assets will soon be managed by funds with mature internal management capabilities – this has serious ramifications for institutional managers

February 17, 2021

ETF growth up, but new entrants fight over 4% of FUM

The ETF market recently passed a significant milestone, reaching $100b of assets in January, and we thought it appropriate to mark the occasion with a quick refresher on who’s who in the zoo.

October 22, 2020

Superannuation: Employer channel to shrink in relevance (Australian Budget 2020)

Superannuation in Australia has had a tough year; with memories of a bruising Royal Commission still fresh, the industry has been asked to facilitate early access to super on a scale never before seen, all while helping members through a global pandemic and the associated market volatility. There is no room for sympathy, though, with […]

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