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Fidante divests Merlon stake

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2024
Fidante Partners has offloaded its interest in Merlon Capital Partners to the latter's principals and investment team. The divestment of Fidante's minority interest took effect on July 12, with Merlon alerting investors that the multi-boutique arrangement ...

Court freezes assets of Keystone AM managed fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained interim orders from the Federal Court to freeze the assets of the Shield Master Fund (Shield), a registered managed fund overseen by Keystone Asset Management. ASIC said it sought ...

Social media, news addiction cost returns: Morningstar

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024
Investors addicted to the financial news cycle and social media hype tend to time the market and forego substantial returns compared to staying the course, according to Morningstar. The "hyper-informed" investor is one who incessantly checks stock prices ...

ASIC issues first stop order for crowd funding

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2024
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued an interim stop order preventing Hirehood from offering securities under its crowd-sourced funding (CSF) offer document. The CSF was published on the VentureCrowd intermediary platform. ...

ASIC places stop orders on Trademax Australia

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024
... conduct being consistent with two target market determinations (TMDs). It said Trademax relied on an inadequate retail investor questionnaire for compliance with its obligations and that its client onboarding process lacked controls to properly assess ...

NovaPort Capital team calls it a day

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
The team at small caps manager NovaPort Capital have decided to hang up their boots. A decision was made on May 13 to wind up the small cap Australian equity manager, Fidante told investors, saying the NovaPort team had made the call to close the business. ...

Principal launches new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
Principal Asset Management has announced the launch of its new private debt capability and the appointment of Mansi Patel as senior managing director, head of infrastructure debt. Patel will lead the launch and implementation of the new fund, which ...

Rahmani takes up post at Magellan

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
Sophia Rahmani officially took over as managing director of Magellan Asset Management as of today. As announced in February, Rahmani will step into the role of chief executive in 12 months' time. As managing director, Rahmani oversees all aspects ...

Equity Trustees scores Woodbridge mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
Woodbridge Capital has appointed Equity Trustees as the responsible entity of its new retail fund, the Woodbridge Secured Income Fund. Equity Trustees executive general manager, corporate and superannuation trustee services Andrew Godfrey said he is ...

Bitcoin halving won't bring immediate price rise

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
The Bitcoin halving event - which occurred over the weekend - has seen optimism around the cryptocurrency rise, but major price increases may take some time to shine through. The halving event is coded to occur every 210,000 blocks and halves the reward ...