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ART delivers 10% for members

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2023
... market disruption and decline in occupancy," he said. "But this time last year, leading into 30 June, we had about a 15% correction in equity markets in the quarter. That was a trigger for us to review our private equity portfolio," Fisher said. Fisher ...

Former BBY operations lead sentenced

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2023
... suspended for three years on the first charge. For the other two charges, she will serve a three-and-a-half-year community correction order, including 380 hours of community service. His Honour Judge Doyle said Bilton's conduct involved serious offending ...

Venture capital rout rattles advice technology sector

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2023
... assets are overvalued, an increase from 69% in 2021. They also predict that inflated asset values will experience a correction. Together with tech companies like Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft continuing to slash their workforce in droves, and the uncertainty ...

Alternatives investors await more corrections: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... proportion of any category, Preqin said. Private equity investors (53%) think their asset class is overvalued and expect a correction, although not imminently. Nearly the same number of investors (56%) agreed that private equity portfolio pricing has ...

New relief for reissued life policies

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2023
... their requests accepted and have the benefit of the transaction provided for in their contract. It also allows for the correction of administrative errors and reinstatement of lapsed policies for non-payment of premiums which have little risk of regulatory ...

Australia survives global pension rout

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2023
Amid the largest drop in global pension assets since the GFC, Australian super funds held steady with lower bond allocations and Super Guarantee flows. Global pension assets had their largest annual decline since the GFC, dropping 16.7% to $47.9 trillion ...

Former financial adviser charged with fraud

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2022
A former financial adviser has been convicted of fraud after using false documents to obtain a financial advantage. Ashley Grant Howard pleaded pleading guilty before the Downing Centre Local Court to two charges of using false documents to obtain a ...

Former van Eyk Research chief sentenced

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2022
... breaching directors' duties earlier this year. Thomas has been sentenced to 15 months, to be served by way of an intensive correction order. He will also have to complete 250 hours of community service. In 2014, Thomas used his position as a director ...

Complacency the biggest risk to retirement: Forum

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022
... those moments, you had a large cohort of investors about to retire and then equity markets went through a big market correction." He said it was around that time that the industry woke up and realised returns are important but the way they are generated ...

Aura Group launches multi-asset solution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2022
A new fund from Aura Group will give wholesale investors an institutional framework for multi-asset investment portfolios. The Aura Multi-Asset Fund has been seeded by the Aura's principals and aims to minimise the risk of substantial negative performance ...