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Rural FM dupes investors: Short-seller

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
An activist short-seller has valued Rural Funds Management's agricultural fund as "ultimately worthless," alleging it is falsifying accounts and over-inflating assets. Bonitas is accusing RFM, the responsible entity for ASX-listed Rural Funds Group ...

Platinum funds leak over $100m

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
Platinum Asset Management reported $108 million in net outflows in July, including $54 million net that flowed out of its trust funds during the month. Platinum now has $25.1 billion across all its funds which are focused on international equities ...

MLC Life appoints new executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
MLC Life Insurance has appointed a new executive, focused on driving new business in group insurance, from Freedom Insurance Group. Sean Williamson, most recently chief executive of the embattled Freedom Insurance Group, will join MLC Life this month ...

Woodford suspension extended again

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
Woodford Equity Income Fund investors are unlikely to have access to their money in time to do their Christmas shopping. Link Asset Services confirmed last week that the Woodford Equity Income Fund is likely to remain suspended another four months ...

Former adviser cops 20-year prison sentence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
A former financial adviser in the US will spend the next 20 years behind bars after defrauding retiree investors of $30 million, some of which was used to fund religious ceremonies to ward off federal investigators. Dawn Bennett of Maryland was this ...

ASIC reveals advice remediation progress

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
A 2017 report by ASIC into how the big banks and AMP oversee financial advisers has netted less than $120 million in remediation to date. AMP, ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB and Westpac have paid a total of $119.7 million [see figure 1] in remediation ...

FASEA exam results expected soon

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2019
Exam marks for the first cohort of financial advisers to sit the FASEA exam are set to be released in the coming weeks. The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority revealed it will release the results of June's inaugural FASEA exam by midway ...

Managed accounts hit milestone

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2019
Managed accounts have reached a growth milestone, now making up 29% of the investment market in Australia. Managed accounts funds under administration grew by 17% to $51 billion in the 12 months to March, according to Rainmaker data. Platform funds ...

UBS AM hires insto sales director

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2019
UBS Asset Management has added a director to its institutional business development team with a hire from BlackRock. Liam McDermott joins UBS Asset Management in the Melbourne-based role. In his most recent role, McDermott was a vice president and an ...

London Stock Exchange in talks to buy Refinitiv

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
London Stock Exchange has confirmed it is in talks to acquire Refinitiv in a US$27 billion deal. The deal would see the stock exchange buying Thomson Reuters' 45% stake in Refinitiv, a global provider of financial markets data and infrastructure that ...