Managed fund product registrations in the year ending 30 June 2025 continued to thrive, almost matching last year’s record levels and continuing the trend of recent years, according to APIR Systems (APIR).

There were 719 managed fund registrations in the 2025 financial year according to APIR chief executive, Chris Donohoe, and while overall product registrations were down slightly from last year at 844, they ended the financial year up 7.4 per cent above the rolling 5-year average level.

APIR identifies, codes and manages reference data for unlisted financial products. In its 30 years of operation, APIR has identified almost 33,000 individual financial products.

Key highlights from 2024-25 data include:

• Managed investment products (MIPs) continue to be the industry’s dominant product choice making up 85.2 per cent of registrations during 2024-25.
• MIP registrations in 2024-25 finished 18.9 per cent above the rolling 5-year average.
• Managed accounts (SMA model) registrations were again strong, at 25.7 per cent above the rolling 5-year average.  
• The slowdown in archiving of superannuation investment options during 2024-25 (85.7 per cent below the rolling 5-year average) suggests that the major rationalisation of options has now been completed.
• There were 41 new participants (i.e. product issuers such as Responsible Entities and Trustees) register in 2023-24, a net increase of almost 10 per cent on the prior year.

Mr Donohoe says that the results are particularly strong given the market volatility created by recent global geopolitical uncertainty.

Looking ahead to 2025-26, Mr Donohoe expects that continued product innovation will be reflected in strong registrations.

“We have seen consistently higher levels of registrations, particularly of managed investment and managed account products, for several years now. The data reflects a normalisation of industry activity post the uncertainties created by Covid,” Mr Donohoe said.