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Brookfield takes stake in Cromwell

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2025
... after it was privatised by the Starwood Capital Group, SSW Partners, Sixth Street, Warburg Pincus, Qatar Investment Authority and ESR's founders. The new owners also include OMERS and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and others. Pearce was named ...

ISS Market Intelligence acquires Autus

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2025
... businesses such as asset managers, platforms and brokers and provides a range of data. It uses the Financial Conduct's Authority (FCA) Register to analyse details of more than 70,000 financial services firms and 220,000 individuals. These capabilities ...

Northern Trust selected to test tokenised asset uses

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... also supported by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), and the Australian Treasury. This project is one of the initiatives highlighted in the government's March 2025 Statement ...

Banned director sentenced for running financial services firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... "constitutes an extremely serious contempt with a clear tendency to interfere with the administration of justice and the authority of the Court." "Mr Fuoco continued to run a financial business over a prolonged period in deliberate contempt of Federal ...

Brite Advisors auditor admits failures, surrenders registration

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
... licence of Brite Advisors after it failed to pay a compensation order upheld by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority in May. This led to a payout from the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort. Brite Advisors entered court-ordered liquidation in ...

AFCA urges adviser clarity on SMSF wholesale investor test

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) is urging financial advisers to gain clarity and better understanding on whether the wholesale investor test applies when advising SMSFs. Even if SMSF trustees have extensive investment experience ...

Future Fund cleared to manage select asset classes in-house

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... event in Sydney yesterday. Combet, who succeeded Peter Costello as chair last year, said the Future Fund now has the authority to "undertake Australian infrastructure and property sector transactions" and to "manage assets without an external investment ...

Pacific workers face barriers to claiming super: University

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... computer and the internet as the forms can't be downloaded and need to be completed online, then emailed to the relevant authority," Whait said. "In PALM countries, English is a second language, and the internet is not as readily accessible as it is ...

Firms rebuffing AFCA determinations should be named: FAAA, professional bodies

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... Advice Association Australia (FAAA) and four other professional bodies are urging the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) to name and shame financial firms that fail to follow through on a determination as more than 60 have failed to do ...

ASIC cancels Financial Services Group Australia's AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... While its AFSL is now cancelled, ASIC specified that FSGA must remain a member of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) and maintain professional indemnity insurance until 4 June 2026.