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Private market deal activity set to persist amid high-rates: Aviva

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2023
Aviva Investors' data showed that in economic downturns illiquidity premia in private debt markets are often compressed, repricing more slowly than public market equivalents; a trend consistent through the most recent spate of interest-rate hikes. The ...

Interest rate hikes are working: Bullock

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2023
... to get on top of. It's often said that if there's just supply shocks, central banks should just look through them; let them naturally decline and come out of the numbers," she said. "And we are observing a lot of that. That's why headline ...

GQG's PAC acquisition attempt hits snag

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023
GQG Partners' attempted acquisition of Pacific Current Group (PAC) has hit a snag as the former's major shareholder River Capital imposes its own conditions and a lower offer price. River Capital has undercut the original $11 offer to be paid in cash ...

Australian Unity to sell off failed development

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023
Australian Unity has been forced to put a half-completed apartment building up for sale because of "ongoing construction-related issues." In a recent letter to investors of the Australian Unity Select Income Fund, Australian Unity said that after having ...

NAB commits to $1bn of lending to boost First Nations businesses

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2023
... them in and support them." Irvine reinforced NAB will do what it can to support as many Indigenous businesses as possible. "Let me say it very clearly, we are open for business. We want to do much more with these communities, and we are leaning in. We ...

ASIC bans former PwC partner over tax scandal

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023
... year, Collins was barred by the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) over integrity breaches following an investigation that found he let confidential law reform plans slip. Collins was undoubtedly the initial thread to unravel the embattled PwC, as the fallout ...

ASIC updates breach reporting rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2023
ASIC is making changes to its reportable situations regime, which includes extending the reporting deadline for some breaches. Licensees will now have 90 days to submit a reportable situation instead of 30 days in situations that have "underlying circumstances ...

Forager to delist Aussie LIT

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2023
... the view that a closed-ended fund isn't working for our investors." He urged those interested in FOR to get in touch and let him know "what the perfect future structure looks like". Launched in 2009, FOR targets undervalued Australian shares, specialising ...

Escala loses bid to restrain former executives

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2023
Escala Partners failed in its bid to restrain two former senior executives who moved to LGT Crestone Wealth Management from working in financial services and soliciting clients. The Supreme Court of Victoria rejected Escala's application for interlocutory ...

Platform fees, poor resourcing a red flag for regulator

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023
The chief executives of major platform operators in the UK have received letters from the regulator, flagging concerns around poor disclosure of fees and under-investment in technology. In the letter, the Financial Conduct Authority's director of consumer ...