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Platinum rolls out major leadership reshuffle

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... selection process, with an excellent track record of performance across several manager. He is also a strong leader and shares the values and investment philosophy that have been the bedrock of Platinum's offering to clients," Peters said. "In conjunction ...

ASIC bans Brisbane-based financial services director

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... that the $540,000 payment was for equity in JB Markets and not a loan. In addition, ASIC found Aardoom failed to issue shares to the other company in relation to the 2021 equity investment in JB Markets within the required timeframe. ASIC said immediately ...

MLC wary of but not opposed to bitcoin

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... correlation with other major asset classes. "However, as cryptocurrency participation has broadened, bitcoin's correlations with shares have trended up during times of capital markets turbulence, which undermines diversification claims,' Farmer said. ...

Svava makes binding offer for Selfwealth, BFG given deadline to counter

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... that the Bell offer is in the best interests of Selfwealth shareholders." Svava currently holds 43.4 million Selfwealth shares, representing approximately 18.8% of shares on issue. Selfwealth will continue to provide updates in relation to the acquisition ...

SelfWealth juggles takeover bids

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
... the Bell offer is in the best interests of Selfwealth shareholders." BFG made an offer of 22 cents for each of SelfWealth shares in November 2024, representing a $51 million deal if the acquisition proceeded; BFG was forced to increase the offer to 25 ...

Convicted adviser fails to appeal prison sentence

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
... BTC, and Beta Pharmacology, and Grimm was the sole director for all businesses. Additionally, he dishonestly transferred shares and convertible notes owned by his client's SMSF into a company without adequately advising his client that he was the sole ...

CSC sells down data centre holdings to Future Fund, Infratil

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
... Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC) sheds some of its holdings. CSC has agreed to offload 12.04% of the ordinary shares it holds in Canberra Data Centres (CDC). Under the agreement, the Future Fund will acquire an additional 10.46%, while Infratil ...

UniSuper prepared for buying opportunities

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
... best performing investment options for the 12 months to 31 December 2024 were Global Companies in Asia and International Shares, which both recorded returns well in excess of 20%," he said. "UniSuper's Balanced option, which is our default option, returned ...

Oaktree offers Star $650m lifeline

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
... the casino. Late last year Perpetual halved its investment in the casino operator, selling around $26 million worth of shares. Additionally, in September last year portfolio managers for the WAM Leaders Fund admitted they "got the call wrong" when they ...

Our results were strong: Alexis George

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
... view that AMP, as a "no-moat business," faces a trade-off between volume growth and margins. Morningstar said AMP's shares remain overvalued, arguing that the market underestimates risks to flows and margins from competition and market volatility ...