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QIC promotes key private equity staff

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2024
QIC has beefed up its private equity team by promoting a swag of investment professionals as the $110 billion Queensland state-backed fund hunts for deals. The promotions include two new partners in the investor's London and San Francisco offices. ...

Losses further sink Lendlease

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2024
... international investments platform," Lombardo said. While the firm made inroads delivering against the five-year turnaround plan announced in FY22, Lombardo added that a prolonged market downturn combined with a high proportion of capital allocated to ...

Financial Standard opens Power50 voting

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2024
Voting is now open for the 2024 Financial Standard Power50, which recognises the most influential financial advisers in Australia. Financial Standard has shortlisted 114 financial advisers who have progressed to the voting stage after receiving more ...

Aware Super announces new $600m acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2024
Aware Real Estate has expanded its industrial real estate footprint in Victoria in partnership with Barings with the acquisition of a $600 million business park. Located in Somerton, 20 kilometers from the Melbourne CBD, the Austrak Business Park is ...

ART appoints chief financial officer, promotes managers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2024
Australian Retirement Trust will welcome a new chief financial officer in October. It comes as the fund also adds three new leadership positions to its investments function. Phil Fraser will take over as chief financial officer on October 1, replacing ...

FAAA to work with Treasury on CSLR

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2024
The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) said it has met with minister for financial services Stephen Jones to raise key concerns regarding the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR). FAAA chief executive Sarah Abood and chair David Sharpe ...

SEC seeks to shut down $450m Ponzi scheme

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024
The US regulator has filed charges over a $453 million Ponzi scheme that saw more than 2000 investors' retirement savings spent on luxury yachts, private jets and more. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) obtained a preliminary injunction ...

Fiducian posts strong result, share price jumps

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024
Fiducian Group has reported that its underlying net profit after tax (NPAT) has risen 17% to $17.7 million in FY24, while its statutory net profit after tax increased 22% to $15 million. Fiducian's underlying earnings per share grew 17%, from 48 ...

Super performance test needs personal rate of return: Adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024
APRA's annual superannuation performance test fails to consider results where it truly matters - at the member level - and ends up missing the mark on ensuring positive member outcomes, according to a financial advice expert advocating for better ...

ASX sued by ASIC for alleged misleading statements

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... misleading. The corporate regulator also alleged the statements implied the project was tracking to the ASX's announced project plan and was on track to meet future milestones, including to "go-live" in April 2023. ASIC claims those representations were ...