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AustralianSuper updates deceased members' investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024
AustralianSuper has changed the way it invests deceased members' funds and refreshed the investment objectives for two options. As of October 1, AustralianSuper is moving account balances to the cash option after it is notified of a deceased member's ...

Charges dropped against Macquarie adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
Charges against a former Macquarie financial adviser, including five counts of fraud, have been dropped. The Brisbane Magistrate's Court dismissed all 27 charges laid against Warren Scott Acworth on October 3 after the Commonwealth Director of Public ...

RQI Investors promotes three staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
RQI Investors, an active quantitative equities manager within the First Sentier Investors Group, has promoted three senior staffers. Joanna Nash and Ron Guido have expanded their responsibilities as senior quantitative portfolio managers with promotions ...

Global Capital Property to be wound up

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
The Federal Court ordered the wind up of Global Capital Property Fund (GCPF) shortly after director Joel Hewish was banned from working in the industry for 10 years. The hearing on October 3 appointed FTI Consulting as liquidators to GCPF after ASIC ...

QIC makes history with $900m sale

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) has sold Sydney-based Westpoint Shopping Centre in the largest single transaction of an Australian retail centre. QIC sold Westpoint to Haben and US investment manager Hines, both of which will take a half stake. ...

Wholesale investor test changes on ice: Parliamentary committee

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024
An overhaul of the wholesale investor test thresholds is on ice but potential major changes are still on the agenda, a parliamentary hearing confirmed this morning. Sitting on the committee, senator Paul Scarr said while there has been public debate ...

Regal renews Platinum takeover talks

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024
The potential takeover of Platinum Asset Management is back on the cards as Regal Partners confirmed it signed a confidentiality deed and will shortly commence due diligence. This follows a rejection of Regal's bid late last month, where Platinum's ...

ISG ordered to wind up managed investment schemes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024
The Queensland Supreme Court has ordered the ISG Private Access Fund and the ISG Real Estate Equity Fund be wound up. This comes after ISG and its sole director, Benjamin Godfrey, had applied to appoint receivers to the schemes. ASIC intervened in the ...

Partners Wealth Group appoints new head of distribution

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2024
Partners Wealth Group appointed a new head of distribution, a former three-time Olympic gold medalist no less, for its wholesale investments division, Partners Private. James Tomkins, who was most recently a national sales manager at UBS Asset Management ...

ASIC crackdown: Action taken against 13 SMSF auditors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2024
During the first half of 2024, ASIC acted against the registration of 13 approved self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) auditors. ASIC's concerns covered a range of topics, including breaches of auditing and assurance standards, independence requirements ...