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$3m super tax will level playing field: Australia Institute

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
... planning frustrating and few retirees draw down on their retirement savings as intended, making it a "massive inheritance scheme" tilted in favour of the wealthy.

Insignia grants CC Capital limited due diligence

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
... non-binding and indicative proposal from CC Capital Partners to acquire all the shares in Insignia Financial by way of a scheme of arrangement at a price of $4.60 cash per share. The board of Insignia Financial said it has carefully considered the revised ...

Best ESG super options revealed

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... screens to companies involved in controversial and nuclear weapons, and tobacco. In third place, Active Super Accumulation Scheme High Growth returned 6.7% per annum over three years, and 17.4% over 12 months, ranking 13 th. Active Super aims for strong ...

Dimon 'cautiously pessimistic' on US economy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... social superiority, it's the 'my way or the highway.'" Assessing cryptocurrency, Dimon describes it as a "Ponzi scheme" and "as useless as a pet rock" but does not completely write it off. "We are going to have some kind of digital currency ...

FAAA accuses government of crucial CSLR failure

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... Association of Australia (FAAA) believes the government may have failed in its obligations when introducing the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) by skipping a key step. Following a review of documents the FAAA obtained via Freedom of Information ...

One in five pension funds face liquidity risks

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
Nearly one in five pension funds face liquidity risks particularly as they increase allocations to private assets, a new survey shows. The study of pension funds from the UK, US, Netherlands, Canada, and the Nordics by Ortec Finance reveals many are ...

CC Capital Partners bids for Insignia

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
... number of conditions including satisfactory completion of due diligence on an exclusive basis and execution of a binding scheme implementation agreement". CC Capital's bid of $4.30 per share is adjusted for any dividends paid or payable after the ...

Court sentences Ponzi scheme promoter

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 DEC 2024
... guilty to aiding and abetting Tony Iervasi, who was the director of Courtenay House that admitted to running it as a Ponzi scheme. Iervasi raised $180 million from 585 investors. Sipina managed to recruit 215 investors. He made a whopping $3.9 million ...

Ventura names new investment chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
Centrepoint Alliance head of research Daniel Stojanovski has been appointed chief investment officer of Ventura Funds Management, the dealer group's asset management arm. As investment chief, Stojanovski will focus primarily on the investment management ...

ASIC sues Binance over customer protection failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... include the requirement to be provided with a product disclosure statement and access to a compliant dispute resolution scheme. ASIC said Binance was also required to make a target market determination under the Design and Distribution Obligations regime. ...