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Franklin Templeton folds Martin Currie into affiliates

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
Franklin Templeton announced it will fold Martin Currie, the US$17.9 billion fund manager, into its other brands, ClearBridge Investments and Franklin Equity Group. Martin Currie's Australia, UK, and global emerging markets investment and sustainability ...

Team Super names retirement chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... insurance structure, and a new custodian. As for future merger partners, Sherry indicated some were waiting in the wings. "So, yes, we're talking to other people, but we've got to land this merger first."

CC Capital outbids Bain again, increases Insignia offer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
CC Capital Partners has topped the most recent bid by Bain Capital to acquire Insignia Financial, lobbing a fresh offer of $4.60 per share. Bain Capital first made a move for Insignia Financial in early December, making an offer of $4 per share that ...

Insignia rejects Bain Capital takeover proposal

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
Insignia Financial has rejected the takeover proposal put forward by Bain Capital last week. In an ASX announcement, the wealth manager said its board believes that, based on its view of the fundamental value of the company, the proposed transaction ...

Crypto operator to fork out millions after court ruling

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
Bit Trade, the operator of the Kraken Exchange in Australia, has been slapped with an $8 million fine for "unlawfully issuing a credit facility to more than 1100 customers." Bit Trade offered a "margin extension" product, which allowed payments to be ...

Bain Capital bids for Insignia Financial

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
Insignia Financial has confirmed it received a takeover bid from US private equity firm Bain Capital following months of speculation. Insignia confirmed to the ASX that Bain Capital lobbed a confidential, preliminary, non-binding, and indicative proposal ...

Cbus lacks stringent director, expenditure policies: Deloitte

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
An independent review by Deloitte has found little evidence to suggest Cbus' pricey relationship with the CFMEU is in the best financial interests of members. It also found the fund's processes for determining the propriety of board directors ...

Keystone Asset Management to be wound up

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024
Keystone Asset Management will be liquidated, as ASIC investigates exactly what's happened to funds invested in the Shield Master Fund. Keystone Asset Management (KAM) was the responsible entity for the Shield Master Fund, the assets of which were ...

Objective of super enshrined in law

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024
After a decade in the making, an objective of superannuation has been legislated, with the bill passed in parliament yesterday. Now enshrined in legislation following the passage of the Superannuation (Objective) Bill 2023, the objective of superannuation ...

AI no silver bullet for advice process, documentation: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024
... clients' objectives, providing them with the correct advice, informing them - have been ticked off. "But as a word of caution, yes, there are many benefits of AI and [in terms of] efficiencies, but ultimately, there's a person and an AFSL behind ...