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Special feature: Hunting for value

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... tariff announcements was in April, but in August that already seems like another world. Since then, investors have had to deal with a short conflict between Israel and Iran, another between India and Pakistan, a series of confusing announcements from ...

PE firm sells CyberCX to Accenture

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
... of emerging threats and build resilience makes this a force multiplier," CyberCX chief executive John Paitaridis said. The deal is worth a reported $1 billion. BGH Capital launched CyberCX in 2019 by merging several Australian cybersecurity firms. Accenture ...

Funds SA finalises investment team overhaul

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
Funds SA has finalised the restructuring of its investment team, shuffling several roles around and creating some new ones. The organisation, which manages the investments of 13 different super fund, endowment and insurer clients including Super SA ...

ASIC calls out super 'leaders and laggards'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
ASIC commissioner Simone Constant has told super trustees more needs to be done to meet obligations under the Retirement Income Covenant. "We are three years into the Retirement Income Covenant now. Three years since trustees have been obliged by law ...

ETF Shares awards fund administration mandate

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... chief executive Cliff Man, chief investment officer David Tuckwell, and chief risk officer Arjun Shanker. As part of the deal, Apex Group will provide custody, middle office, fund accounting and unit pricing services to ETF Shares. Apex Group said by ...

Four men charged over sophisticated bond scam

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
Four residents of Victoria have been charged with a slew of money laundering offences for allegedly using fake social media advertisement and investment comparison sites to help run a bond scam. ASIC alleges that between January and July 2021, Dimitrios ...

Guilty plea entered in Ponzi scheme case

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2025
A man who carried on a financial services business without and AFSL and duped investors out of nearly $2 million has pleaded guilty to dishonest conduct and dealing with proceeds of crime. Ashley Arandez pleaded guilty to dishonest conduct, unlicensed ...

Lederer Group bids for Elanor Commercial Property Fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2025
... Elanor sold its 12.56% stake in ECF to Lederer Group for nearly $24 million, valuing each share at $0.60. As part of the deal, the Lederer Group committed $50 million in equity capital to support ECF. That meant it had participation in a new investment ...

Treasury launches consultation on CSLR breaching sub-sector levy caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
Treasury today launched a consultation on the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR), considering options on how to deal with estimates that have drastically exceeded sub-sector levy caps. Released late Friday, the consultation paper is seeking feedback ...

Perpetual Corporate Trust acquires IAM's term deposit broking business

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... said, adding it determined that such an investment would be better suited to an operator of greater scale. As part of the deal, four staff members from IAM will move to PCT on October 1. "This ensures existing clients will have a seamless transition ...