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Platinum quashes Regal bid

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
Platinum Asset Management has rejected alternatives investment manager Regal Partners' takeover bid. Platinum's board unanimously decided that Regal's offer undervalued the company and wasn't in the best interests of shareholders. "The board of Platinum ...

Vanguard to pay $13m in greenwashing case brought by ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
... responsibilities to its clients seriously. "Vanguard has cooperated with ASIC throughout this matter since informing the regulator of the issue and its approach to rectification in 2021. There were no findings of financial loss to investors," the group ...

ASIC extends two advice instruments

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
... reportable situations relief and personal advice record keeping requirement instruments for another five years. The regulator has established ASIC Corporations and Credit (Breach Reporting-Reportable Situations) Instrument 2024/620 and ASIC Corporations ...

ASIC slaps Macquarie with record $5m fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
ASIC imposed a record $5 million fine on Macquarie Bank for its failure to curb suspicious order transactions on electricity futures. ASIC's Markets Disciplinary Panel (MDP) found Macquarie breached market integrity rules on 50 occasions between January ...

Court rejects Linchpin director appeal

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
The Federal Court rejected former Linchpin Capital director Peter Daly's appeal, which will retain his banning order and force him to pay a fine. Justice Jackman yesterday upheld the judgment delivered in January, which imposed a $150,000 penalty ...

E&P Financial Group seeks to delist

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
The board of E&P Financial Group (EP1) is moving to delist from the ASX, claiming the company is materially undervalued thanks to the barrage of regulatory proceedings and class action litigation it faced in recent years. These issues have sustained ...

ASX hunts new chief risk officer

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
The ASX is looking for a new chief risk officer following Hamish Treleaven announcing his intention to retire. Treleaven was appointed chief risk officer at the securities exchange in March 2017. Throughout his tenure, he was responsible for designing ...

APRA calls out high-cost super platforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has put superannuation platform products under the microscope, saying their higher fees and costs are eroding members' retirement savings. Platform TDPs charged higher administration fees and costs ...

Lack of talent challenging DDO compliance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
The regulator's recent crackdown on risk and compliance in the sector has product issuers stuck between a rock and a hard place, with an extreme dearth of talent making it difficult for fund managers and super funds to meet ASIC's expectations. Earlier ...

Calls for independent oversight on mortgage stress

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
In August, Finder's Consumer Sentiment Tracker recorded the highest level of mortgage stress since it first began tracking in early 2019. More than two in five (42%) homeowners struggled to pay their home loan in August with an estimated 1.4 million ...