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Telegram pump and dump schemers plead guilty

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... Yusuf participated between about 17 September 2021 and about 22 September 2021. Stuart and Summer each pleaded guilty to one count of dealing with money or other property that they knew to be proceeds of crime to the value of $10,000 or more. Meanwhile ...

ASIC sues Australian Unity for TMD failure

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
ASIC is suing Australian Unity Funds Management for allegedly failing to ensure retail investors fit the suitable target market for its investment product, the Select Income Fund. ASIC is looking at the period between 5 October 2021 and 5 October 2023 ...

Australia's largest buyout firm hires from State Street GA

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
Pacific Equity Partners has appointed Alexander Brown as a director to spearhead the firm's expansion into retail financial adviser and direct investor markets. Brown brings 15 years of experience across financial markets, asset management and investment ...

Private credit market has lenders sweating

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
Stamford Capital's Debt Capital Markets survey has revealed that lenders are uneasy about the size and practices of Australia's private credit market. The survey gauged the sentiment of 100 major banks, non-banks, and second-tier banks. Stamford Capital ...

New Forests sees potential in Vietnamese timber

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
New Forests made its first investment in Vietnam, backing one of the country's top suppliers of lumber and logs. Via the Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2 (TAFF2), New Forests has invested in Tavico Group. It is the fourth investment made by the fund ...

Australia's billionaire boom branded 'morally wrong' by Oxfam

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
The ranks of Australian billionaires have more than doubled over the past decade, accumulating wealth at $137 million per day on average - $95,000 per minute, according to Oxfam Australia. Its acting chief executive Christina Muli described this as ...

LGT Crestone, AUSIEX acquisitions finalised

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
AUSIEX has finalised its acquisition of FIIG Holdings, while LGT Crestone's takeover of Commonwealth Bank of Australia's (CBA) private wealth business has completed. AUSIEX, which is a subsidiary of Nomura Research Institute (NRI), has now expanded ...

ASIC alleges Choosi flogged Hannover life insurance products

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
ASIC has taken Choosi to the Federal Court for allegedly failing to provide a range of comparable options on life and funeral insurance policies to customers and instead flogging products solely from Hannover Life Re. From at least 1 July 2019 and to ...

Retirement confidence highest since 2020: SSGA

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
Despite persisting cost-of-living pressures, economic uncertainty, and heightened retirement costs, retirement confidence has increased from 24% in 2023 to 33% in 2025. Australia now sits just behind the US (34%) as one of the most optimistic countries ...

UK treasury provides guidance on local pension consolidation

MATT TOLEDO  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
In the UK, there are 86 local government pension schemes (LGPS) and more than a dozen multi-employer defined contribution pension funds that collectively manage $822 billion (£392bn) in assets. The ruling Labour Party's Treasury wants to consolidate ...