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Falcon Capital, First Guardian Master Fund set for liquidation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025
... contradict representations made to investors. First Guardian invested in entities that Anderson, a director of Falcon, was associated with or had financial interest in. ASIC is also concerned that funds were put into assets investors were not informed ...

Unlawful hawking practices re-emerge in SMSFs

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2025
... 'encourage' people to establish an SMSF for the sole purpose of selling an investment product that is often associated with promises of unrealistic returns." ASIC banned unsolicited cold calling in life and consumer credit insurance sales in ...

Tokenisation can save US$135m in back-office costs: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... distance for the industry to travel until it accepts the full scale of the transformation tokenisation may deliver and the associated benefits," Godins said. A proof-of-concept partnership recently announced by Citi and Fidelity International aims to ...

Apex on local hiring spree

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... where all administration tasks are handled by the outsourced party. The same can be said for the core registry and associated digital offerings - due to difficulties in accessing data and incumbency outsourced firms have not offered flexibility in these ...

Outlook favourable for practice valuations: Guide

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2025
... favourable financing terms, including 10+ year principal and interest loans, if this does not continue, we may see an associated decrease in valuations in line with shorter loan period amortisation periods."

Court acts against two with links to Shield Master Fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... against Osama Saad and Ferras Merhi over their potential involvement. ASIC is investigating Saad and various entities associated with him in relation to certain managed investment schemes, including the Shield Master Fund. Following an application by ...

Selfwealth to proceed with Svava proposal

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... decision not to make a counterproposal was made with consideration to our assessed valuation of Selfwealth, the risks associated with an anticipated lower interest rate cycle, current market conditions and the competitive landscape," BFG said in a statement ...

SG Hiscock, Ruffer shutter funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... to reach sufficient scale to appropriately seek its investment return and income objectives given the fees and costs associated in running it, RE Perpetual told investors. "Following a recommendation of the manager, the RE has decided that terminating ...

SMSFs outperform APRA funds over five years: Research

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025
... non-advised funds (6.4%) in the same period. "The results indicate that SMSF trustees who received financial advice are associated with funds that reported materially higher investment returns in 2022-23," Mihaylov continued. SMSFA chief executive Peter ...

Trump tariffs to hit Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025
... global uncertainty and disrupts supply chains. He said the tariffs reinforce his view that we're entering an environment associated with trade wars and disruption, which will disrupt economic activity. This will be a dampener for global growth this year ...