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DBFO reforms package 'pretty disappointing': FAAA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... areas of retirement to consumers, like, estate planning, aged care, and the Age Pension, including the Home Equity Access Scheme. She noted that funds have little commercial incentive to offer advice in these areas, as they don't affect the assets ...

State Super: In decline but doing fine

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
State Super closed its main defined benefit schemes in 1985 and 1992, meaning the fund is on a long slow march to completion. Its chief executive John Livanas unpacks the challenges of managing a fund with no new members and an inevitable end. State ...

Canada pension fund hires ex-CalPERS CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
Canada's largest pension scheme has hired a former CalPERS investment chief who famously led a big push into private equity and private debt. The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has confirmed the appointment of Ben Meng as head of investment ...

ASIC freezes assets Shield, First Guardian marketer

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
ASIC has frozen the assets of Rashid Alshakshir, who facilitated leads to the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian Master Fund, as it investigates his links with property fund manager and developer Paul Chiodo. Alshakshir has ties to the funds, according ...

Falcon Capital, First Guardian Master Fund set for liquidation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025
ASIC is attempting to liquidate responsible entity Falcon Capital, wind up the First Guardian Master Fund, as well as impose a receiver and manager to director David Anderson's personal property. The regulator has put into motion the applications ...

AIOFP and IFPA enter 'strategic alliance'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2025
... environment including reference to the inclusion of accountants to provide structural superannuation advice and the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR)," the announcement said.

Unlawful hawking practices re-emerge in SMSFs

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2025
SMSF Association (SMSFA) chief executive Peter Burgess has called out recent hawking practices that prompt people to transfer their retirement savings into a self-managed super fund (SMSF). Burgess said the sector needs to be on alert about the resurgence ...

Tokenisation can save US$135m in back-office costs: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... funds and digital foreign exchange swaps with the help of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and its Project Guardian scheme, a collaboration between policymakers and industry players to enhance liquidity and efficiency of financial markets through ...

Bain, CC Capital up Insignia bids

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... an independent expert concluding that the applicable proposal is in the best interests of shareholders; agreement of a scheme implementation deed with Insignia Financial on customary market terms; and final investment committee approval from either Bain ...

PM Capital confirms proposal to acquire Platinum funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2025
... non-binding offers to snap up Platinum Capital Limited (ASX: PMC) and Platinum Asia Investments (ASX: PAI) by way of a scheme of arrangement. PGF said its proposals give shareholders in the Platinum funds the option to swap their holdings for its shares ...