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AAC at centre of billionaire insider trading scheme

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2023
The British billionaire owner of Tottenham Hotspur and majority shareholder of Australian Agricultural Co, Joe Lewis, has been criminally charged in New York for orchestrating a "brazen insider trading scheme." Lewis, founder of investment firm Tavistock ...

Blue Orbit operations chief resigns

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2023
Blue Orbit Asset Management has lost its operating chief with the departure of Lewis Bearman who will now take a break from executive roles. Bearman joined Blue Orbit almost three years ago jumping from Prodigy Investment Partners, where he carried ...

Zipmex files for debt relief amid ongoing crypto crash

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2022
Zipmex has filed moratorium applications in Singapore, preventing creditors from making claims while it attempts to fix liquidity issues. Today the crypto exchange will hold a case conference webinar open to its creditors via zoom following its announcement ...

Tax Practitioners Board adds two new members

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2022
Assistant treasurer of the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB), Michael Sukkar, has appointed Andrew Conway and Steven Dobson to the board for a three-year period starting from 30 March 2022. Conway is chief executive and a fellow of the Institute of Public ...

Mingshi Investment Management to launch local offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022
The Shanghai-headquartered investment manager has been handed an AFSL as it looks to roll out two local China-A shares funds for institutional and sophisticated investors. Following the opening of its Sydney office last month, Mingshi Investment Management ...

Proxy advice reforms defeated

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
The Senate has overturned proxy advice reforms announced at the end of last year, three days after the new regime had begun. On a vote of 29 votes to 25, the Senate disallowed the new regulations that were announced by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in December ...

Magellan director steps down

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2021
A long standing non-executive director at Magellan Financial Group has announced his retirement from the board. Paul Lewis first joined the board in 2006 and was also chair of the remuneration and nominations committee and a member of the audit and ...

Praemium appoints chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021
The ASX-listed platform business has announced a permanent chief executive, replacing Michael Ohanessian. Anthony Wamsteker, who was appointed interim chief executive and an executive director in May, will step into the role permanently on August 16. ...

AMP Capital fund reduces fees, secures major loan

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021
AMP Capital's Community Infrastructure Fund (CommIF) is shaking up its management fee structure and has announced that it secured a major loan for one of its key assets. The $1.4 billion fund told shareholders that from August 1, management fees ...

Praemium chief executive exits

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2021
The platform chief executive has suddenly left the company after almost a decade in the role as Praemium calls in consultants to review the international business. Michael Ohanessian joined as chief executive in August 2011 and was terminated by the ...