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Decade-long ban for UGC director upheld

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
... superannuation 'health check,'" ASIC said at time of banning. Subsequently, ASIC obtained interim orders from the Federal Court freezing the assets of UGC and its authorised representative Global Capital Property Fund (GCPF). The entity entered ...

Former Kerr Neilson staffer pleads guilty to insider trading

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
... surveillance technology, which tracks suspicious trading activity in real time. The matter has been listed for mention in the Federal Court on September 5 and is being prosecuted by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. This is also one ...

InterPrac hit with $22m in AFCA complaints

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... facts and circumstances, and that no view has been formed on the merits of any complaint," the firm said. In February, the Federal Court acted against Osama Saad and Ferras Merhi over their potential involvement. Financial adviser Merhi was licensed ...

Payday super delays will cost workers: ASFA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... of quarterly will mean they are $5000 better off in retirement." ASFA welcomed payday super's inclusion in the 2023-24 Federal Budget, with a proposed start date of 1 July 2026, but urged the government to pass the necessary legislation. ASFA said while ...

Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... September 2007 and late March 2009. US households lost US$16.4 trillion; about 20% of household wealth. Further, using Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis data, Innova deputy portfolio manager and senior investment analyst Rafio Khan demonstrated that between ...

Mulino sits on Tranche 2 for now, grapples with complexity

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
... clarifying what topics super funds can collectively charge for, only to fall through the cracks in the lead up to the federal election. "What I'm working to do is to get the next piece of exposure draft out as soon as practical and that's not ...

American Century cuts US outlook amid tariff impacts

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... year's medium-term outlook," Weiss added. Additionally, MFS Investment Management chief economist Erik Weisman said the Federal Reserve's meeting this week should provide some economic updates on topics surrounding interest rate cuts and macroeconomic ...

ASIC loses appeal against Finder Wallet

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
The Federal Court has dismissed ASIC's appeal in the Finder Wallet case relating to the defunct crypto-asset related product Finder Earn. Wallet Ventures (previously known as Finder Wallet) is an AUSTRAC-registered digital currency exchange. The ...

Treasury opens consult on non-compete reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... officially opened its consultation into reforms to ban non-compete clause after the measure was introduced into the 2025-26 Federal Budget. The consultation has asked for feedback on policy details to ban non-compete clauses for low- and middle-income ...

Now is the best time to invest in infrastructure: Palisade

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
... rapidly, the stock available is reducing. It's that supply-and-demand mismatch, which means that governments, both federal and state, are putting significant amounts of capital work to try and support private sector investment in the space." Rigg ...