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Brighter Super adds head of product

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2024
Queensland-based Brighter Super appointed a new head of product, hiring from Aware Super. The highly experienced Cristina Saija moved across to the $29 billion superannuation fund headed by Kate Farrar early this month. Leading product strategy, Saija ...

Unlicensed crypto investor faces jail time

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2024
A Queensland man has been charged with nine offences and is facing imprisonment for running a financial services business without a licence. The charges were filed after an investigation by ASIC, which discovered that Aryn Hala had made promises to ...

Australian Ethical, Infradebt to launch infrastructure debt fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
Australian Ethical and Mike Cannon-Brookes-backed Infradebt are launching a debt fund to finance renewable energy projects, alongside ventures in social infrastructure and property development. The infrastructure debt fund will provide capital to solar ...

Quinn family rescues beloved Sara Lee

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2024
The family who rescued Darrell Lea from voluntary administration more than a decade ago has now saved iconic dessert brand, Sara Lee. Sara Lee's administrators at FTI Consulting announced on Monday that the company, which went into voluntary administration ...

ME Bank fined $820k for misleading borrowers

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024
ME Bank has been fined by the Federal Court after it was found to have provided inaccurate information about its home loans to customers. The matter, prosecuted by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, followed an investigation and referral ...

Penta Capital fined for fabricated FUM

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024
ASIC has fined a firm for making several false statements that included claims it managed nearly $7 billion in assets when it does not. Queensland-based Penta Capital boasted on its website between May 2022 and February 2023 that it managed $6.9 billion ...

Mercer Super loses state leaders

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2024
Mercer Super has confirmed the departure of Victoria state leader Marcus Carr following a restructure. Carr's counterpart in New South Wales and Queensland Nathan Der Stepanian has also left the firm. Carr - who has been with Mercer for over 16 ...

Centuria REIT valuation dives $124m

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2024
About $124 million has been shaved off the value of Centuria's Office REIT. Conducting its half-year external valuations, Centuria Office REIT had 12 of its 22 investment properties - about 49% by value - reviewed as at 2023 end. It said the result ...

ASIC permanently bans adviser who stole client funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024
A financial adviser based on Queensland's Hope Island was permanently banned by the corporate watchdog after he was found to have misled clients about potential returns and used their funds for his own expenses. Delan Pagliaccio is banned from providing ...

Former adviser misled ASIC during investigation: Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2023
A former Shaw and Partners financial adviser was charged with two counts of providing false or misleading information to ASIC during the regulator's investigation into his misconduct. Kristofer Ridgway allegedly provided false information during ...