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Ontario Teachers', Hines snap up build-to-rent portfolio

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and global real estate investment manager Hines have acquired two build-to-rent (BTR) properties in Brisbane, comprising 354 units, from ADCO Group. The first property, located at 28 Robertson Street in Fortitude Valley ...

Labor delivers another budget surplus, but productivity stalls

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
The final budget outcome for 2023/24 came in as a surplus of $15.8 billion - or 0.6% of GDP - for the underlying cash balance - an improvement of $6.5 billion on the previous estimates. The better-than-expected outcome was driven mainly by the payments ...

Pitcher Partners executives launch advice firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
Three Pitcher Partners executives have set off to launch Viola Private Wealth, an ultra-high-net-worth financial advice firm spearheaded by Charlie Viola. Viola, together with founding partners Sean Ward and Andrew Levi, bought out operational aspects ...

Platinum quashes Regal bid

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
Platinum Asset Management has rejected alternatives investment manager Regal Partners' takeover bid. Platinum's board unanimously decided that Regal's offer undervalued the company and wasn't in the best interests of shareholders. "The board of Platinum ...

ASIC slaps Macquarie with record $5m fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
... taking place amidst unprecedented volatility in energy markets globally stemming from supply issues and the Russia-Ukraine war. This year alone, the MDP fined J.P. Morgan Securities Australia $775,000 for its failure to moderate suspicious orders in ...

Lack of talent challenging DDO compliance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
The regulator's recent crackdown on risk and compliance in the sector has product issuers stuck between a rock and a hard place, with an extreme dearth of talent making it difficult for fund managers and super funds to meet ASIC's expectations. Earlier ...

ASIC issues warning over shoddy DDO practices

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2024
Only a handful of product issuers are monitoring consumer outcomes and product performance, while others are relying too much on consumers to self-certify they fit a target market, an ASIC review into compliance with design and distribution obligations ...

ASIC cancels AFSL of foreign exchange contracts issuer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has cancelled the Australian financial services licence (AFLS) of contracts for difference (CFDs) and foreign exchange contracts issuer, FXOpen AU. ASIC said the decision to cancel the licence ...

Future Fund annual return 'very strong'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2024
The Future Fund delivered a 9.1% annual return in FY24, adding $18.8 billion to the portfolio, bringing the sovereign wealth fund's total value to $224.9 billion. This performance lifts its 10-year average annual return to 8.3%, exceeding a mandate ...

Short-termism damaging Australian economy: CEDA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
Australia must move beyond pervasive short-termism and lift its policy ambitions if the nation is to reach its economic potential, according to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). "Our record of almost three decades of economic ...