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IAM mandate grows to $130m

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
Income Asset Management's (IAM) mandate to refinance digital non-bank lender MoneyMe's debt facility has grown to $130 million. IAM is refinancing MoneyMe's MME Horizon Warehouse Trust, which has secured commitments from family offices ...

UniSuper waters down 'volatile' environmental option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
UniSuper is refreshing the investment strategy for its Global Environmental Opportunities (GEO) option, effective March 28. The major change will be lowering the threshold for companies to qualify for inclusion in the strategy. "Due to the concentrated ...

ASIC bans adviser jailed for supplying drugs

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
ASIC has banned Northern Territory financial adviser Harris Shortland for seven years, following his conviction for supplying dangerous drugs. In December 2021, Shortland was convicted on drug offences after having been arrested in July 2018 for importing ...

Bain, CC Capital up Insignia bids

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
Insignia Financial has received two separate revised non-binding and indicative proposals from CC Capital Partners and Bain Capital. The bids were both increased to $5 cash per Insignia share, valuing the wealth manager at $3.35 billion, and an 8.7% ...

Vale Donald Williams

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
Donald Williams, co-founder and former chief investment officer of Platypus Asset Management, is being remembered following his passing. Williams began his career as an analyst at AMP in 1990. In 1994 he became a commodity analyst at Credit Suisse First ...

Large financial firms falling behind on AI adoption

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to rise, larger financial firms are lagging small and medium sized businesses when it comes to adoption, according to Evolved.AI chief executive Mike Kollo. Kollo - who is in Sydney preparing to present at the ...

Praemium names interim CFO

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
Praemium appointed a chief financial officer to replace Dave Coulter in the interim. Simon Moore is the temporary finance chief as Praemium searches for permanent replacement. Coulter was in the chief financial officer role from March 2022. Prior to ...

Insignia Financial takes $53.5m profit hit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
Insignia Financial will take a $53.5 million profit hit after electing not to exercise an early repayment request from NAB. Insignia issued $200 million of subordinated loan notes (SLNs) to NAB in May 2021 as part of the funding package to finance the ...

Treasury responds to CHESS replacement inquiry

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
Treasury has released its response following the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services report, Competition in clearing and settlement and the ASX CHESS Replacement Project: The CHESS Replacement Project is too important ...

Global tech companies eyeing super funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025
Technology companies, primarily from the US and Europe, are preparing to come to Australia to pitch their capabilities to our super funds next week for the AM Tech Day summit. Invartis Consulting country head Nigel Janz told Financial Standard these ...