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Former adviser pleads guilty to $1m theft

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025
A former financial adviser from Western Australia has pleaded guilty to five charges related to misappropriating $1.03 million of client funds. Anthony Torre was charged with five counts of stealing and eight counts of fraud in June 2022 following an ...

Franklin Templeton folds Martin Currie into affiliates

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
... other affiliates of Brandywine Global, ClearBridge Investments, The Permal Group, QS Investors, Royce & Associates, and Western Asset Management. Legg Mason was then acquired by Franklin Templeton in 2020, which at the time had a combined US$1.4 trillion ...

WA best performing state, but economic growth lags

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
Western Australia snatched the title of the country's best performing economy in the September quarter, ranking first in five of the eight economic indicators assessed in the CommSec State of States report. The state claimed the top spot twice over ...

Martin Currie adds to active ETF stable

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... Templeton terminated three of its funds - Martin Currie Diversified Income Fund, Martin Currie Tactical Allocation Fund, and Western Asset Macro Opportunities Bond Fund.

Payton Capital strengthens NSW leadership

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... appointment represents a key milestone in the company's continued growth and expansion in 2025, following its entry into Western Australia and the opening of a second Queensland office in late 2024. The appointment follows a raft of appointments ...

AustralianSuper aims to five-fold $1.4bn Euro venture in five years

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
... diversified base of more than 200 tenants. It will help capitalise on increased occupier demand and rental growth throughout western Europe with a range of high-quality last mile and mid-box warehouses, AustralianSuper said. The assets have strong environmental ...

WA financial planning firm acquired by US insurance broker

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
Global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co has acquired Western Australia-based Wealth Management Partners (WMP), with the entire WMP team to remain under Arthur J. Gallagher's direction moving forward. Details of the transaction were not ...

GESB renews administration mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
The fund for Western Australian public sector workers has renewed its mandate with MUFG Retirement Solutions. MUFG Retirement Solutions, formerly Link Group, has held the mandate since July 2014 when the Western Australian government first outsourced ...

WA super law reforms boost GESB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
... the public service have been passed. Changes to the State Superannuation Act 2000 have now been passed by both Houses of Western Australia's Parliament, benefiting the 250,000 current and former public sector workers who have super accounts with GESB. ...

Former Western AM investment chief charged for 'cherry-picking'

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged former Western Asset co-chief investment officer Ken Leech for "engaging in a multi-year scheme to allocate favourable trades to certain portfolios." The SEC alleges Leech engaged in the conduct ...