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Boutique shuts Aussie equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... must consider that if those redemption requests are met immediately, whether unit holders who continue to hold units may bear a disproportionate burden of capital gains tax or other expenses, or whether the meeting of those redemption requests would ...

Fraudster dyed hair, grew beard to evade regulator

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
A man who was jailed over a hedge fund collapse dyed his hair and grew a beard in an attempt to go unrecognised as he launched a new bitcoin scheme. The US Securities and Exchange Commission charged Boaz Manor last week with raising over US $30 million ...

SGE extension could hurt small entities: FSC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... would be as a result of the increased "regulatory compliance burden" those entities and underlying portfolio companies would bear. The FSC said that if the legislation was designed to bring large investment entities into the scope of Multinational Anti-Avoidance ...

Geared super funds hit jackpot

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... told Financial Standard. However, Ross warned against getting too excited by the results, noting that during corrections or bear markets geared funds experience extremely low returns, with their negative returns also compounded. He adds assumptions in ...

What you read in 2019: Financial advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... number passing the exam will diminish as those with greater confidence were likely to have sat the exam first. 10. Advisers to bear brunt of AMP failings After AMP announced its new strategy, it soon became clear who the losers were. The group said it ...

Advice group appoints director

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
A financial advice group has appointed a new independent director, in a bid to grow the company in the current uncertain environment. Alexander Beard has been appointed as an independent non-executive director at Centrepoint Alliance, joining the group ...

APRA joins in on Westpac scrutiny

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... its directors and/or its senior managers breached the Banking Act - including the Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR) - or contravened APRA's prudential standards," the regulator said. "Given the magnitude and nature of the issues alleged ...

Where to invest when a GFC looms

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2019
More than half of the world's biggest money managers think another GFC will strike soon yet they don't plan to fiddle much with their asset allocations in 2020, according to a new survey of 500 institutional investors. Natixis Investment Managers surveyed ...

Regulators circle as scandal engulfs Westpac

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... confirm by the end of the month whether it would launch legal proceedings under the Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR) against the besieged bank. It comes nearly two weeks after AUSTRAC's explosive exposure of 23 million money laundering ...

Planners heed SMSF risk warning

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... highlighted two cases from 2018 that demonstrate the risk auditors run by not sufficiently auditing SMSF documentation. The Cam and Bear - otherwise known as 'the cheese case' - and Baumgartner cases saw the individual SMSF auditors "left to ...