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Equity Trustees offloads Irish business

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023
Equity Trustees will sell its Irish business for a nominal sum, having reached a deal with its management team. The Irish business is being purchased via a management buyout by Equity Trustees Ireland chief executive Kevin Lavery, with additional investment ...

Ireland to create new sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2023
The Irish government will establish the Future Ireland Fund to help meet costs of the future, including those posed by its ageing population, and is targeting €100 billion by the mid-2030s. Announced as part of the country's 2024 budget package, finance ...

Link Fund Solutions sale completes

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2023
Link Group has completed the sale of its UK and Irish fund solutions business to Waystone Group (Waystone), a year after first seeking a buyer. Having sought a buyer since October 2022, the sale of the troubled Fund Solutions arm to Waystone was first ...

Skynet adviser stole $10.2m: Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023
... three years". In one example, 10 clients believed he invested $1,532,358 in a development project on 225 Burke Road, Glen Iris, but the funds were never used for this purpose. Court documents also show that he worked for Westpac, NAB and CBA, providing ...

Equity Trustees to exit UK, Ireland

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023
EQT Holdings, the holding company for Equity Trustees, confirmed it will exit its businesses in the UK and Ireland. Equity Trustees managing director Mick O'Brien said: "We are advanced in assessing options to determine the best exit from our investment ...

Equity Trustees reviews UK, Ireland businesses

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2023
EQT Holdings, the parent company of Equity Trustees, is reviewing its investment and scrutinising the future of its operations in the UK and Ireland. Equity Trustees' managing director Mick O'Brien commented: "While the businesses are now well established ...

Link Group agrees to sell BCM arm

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
Link Group has sold its banking and credit management (BCM) business for cash consideration up to $48 million to Irish firm LC Financial Holdings (LCFH). The transaction is expected to complete in the second half of the year, subject to the Financial ...

Quality of Advice must consider digital: Ignition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
Ignition Advice senior adviser Andrew Baker has argued the government's Quality of Financial Advice Review must consider digital advice. In the terms of reference for the Quality of Advice Review, Treasury said it will "consider how the regulatory framework ...

Link updates on bid offers

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2021
Link Group announced it received another unsolicited proposal for its banking and credit management (BCM) business and provided an update on Carlyle Group's progress in its takeover bid. Link received an unsolicited, conditional and non-binding proposal ...

Link allows BCM due diligence

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2021
The Link Group board agreed to provide a syndicate led by Pepper European Servicing with exclusive due diligence information following the takeover offer for Link's Banking and Credit Management (BCM) business. The PES syndicate has been given exclusive ...