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Prime to acquire boutique fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024
Prime Financial Group is set to acquire a boutique alternatives asset manager and will pay up to $4.5 million. The ASX-listed firm entered into an agreement to buy Altor Capital which has a staff of seven based in Brisbane. Prime will pay an initial ...

Class action filed against IC Markets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024
Piper Alderman has formally filed its class action against International Capital Markets (IC Markets) for offering contracts for difference to retail investors. The law firm began investigating the potential for a class action in October 2023. Now filed ...

Netwealth records $78bn FUA, flags departure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024
Netwealth is reporting a record increase in funds under administration (FUA), as it prepares to farewell its chief financial officer. In a quarterly update, Netwealth said a $6 billion increase in FUA in the December quarter has pushed its total FUA ...

Vale Lang Walker

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024
Sydney-based property magnate and philanthropist Lang Walker has passed away, aged 78. Walker, who alongside his father Alec formed the privately-owned property development company Walker Corporation over 50 years ago, has been remembered as a nation-builder ...

Aware Super appoints head of public market equities

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024
Aware Super has appointed former Vanguard and BlackRock portfolio manager Agnes Hong as its new head of public market equities. Hong, who is relocating from Philadelphia to Sydney, will oversee the development of Aware Super's $90 billion public ...

Australian Ethical super chief goes for growth in 2024

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2024
Australian Ethical is transitioning its administration to Grow Inc in 2024, while also aspiring to accelerate growth in response to an increasing preference for ethical investments, says chief executive of superannuation Ross Piper. In an interview ...

MSC Trustees acquires Certane Corporate Trust

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2024
... into external administration by one if its creditors, Taiping Trustees. Five months later, Pacific Infrastructure Partners (PIP) announced it was the new owner of Sargon, which was rebranded to Certes Corporation but eventually settled on Certane. MSC ...

HUB24 sets sights on $100bn FUA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024
HUB24 is confident that it is on track to reach a $100 billion funds under administration milestone in 2025. In a quarterly update released this morning, the investments platform announced it hit $91.2 billion at the end of December 2023, up 25% year ...

Investors livid over fresh portfolio valuation: Mayfair 101

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2024
Mayfair 101 says its noteholders have been left devastated by new sales data that suggests the Mission Beach real estate portfolio has increased in value by as much as $170 million. Mayfair 101 purchased the portfolio of 200-plus properties in 2019. ...

More outflows for Platinum

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2024
Platinum Investment Management reported another month of net outflows as the fund manager confirmed the start date of its new chief executive. In December 2023, Platinum recorded net outflows of about $235 million to finish the year with $15.4 billion ...