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Former Big Un chief pleads guilty to insider trading

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2026
... technology firm Big Un Richard Evans has pleaded guilty to one count of communicating inside information in Sydney District Court. Evans, formerly Evertz, gave inside information about Big Un to a shareholder around 10 January 2017, knowing reasonably ...

ASIC hands down 10-year adviser ban

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2026
... September 2022, ISG ceased paying distributions and later froze investor redemptions. In September 2024 the Queensland Supreme Court ordered ISG, as the responsible entity for the ISG Private Access Fund and the ISG Real Estate Equity Fund, to wind up ...

Sale of Interprac raises eyebrows at ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2026
ASIC wants the Federal Court to appoint a receiver to investigate the fire sale of Interprac Financial Planning to Conquest Investment Partners, saying it has concerns over what it may mean for the advice group's creditors. The regulator has applied ...

Dimon warns private credit crisis will hurt retail investors most

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2026
JPMorgan Chase chair and chief executive Jamie Dimon says while the current private credit crisis does not pose a systemic risk, retail investors will be among the worst affected should 'anything go wrong'. In his annual letter to shareholders ...

FEATURE: Estate planning | Best laid plans

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2026
... should have done better, and is a 'disappointment', you still have to look at public policy and see whether or not a court will award that child money if you completely exclude them," Williamson says. Public policy in law refers to the principle ...

Fiducian to pay $7.3m greenwashing fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2026
... Act, a Statement of Agreed Facts and Admissions has not yet been finalised between the parties nor filed with the Supreme Court of NSW." The parties have also not yet sought court approval on the proposed pecuniary penalties or cost orders. A date will ...

Another former Venture Egg adviser slapped with four-year ban

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2026
... its failures to ensure representatives acted in clients' best interests, while Venture Egg has been ordered by the Federal Court to be wound up on "just and equitable grounds" on March 25, appointing a liquidator. Hogan applied to the Administrative ...

US private credit firm swoops in to save Star

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2026
... and cultural concerns" plaguing the casino operator. Earlier this month the governance issues culminated in the Federal Court finding two former senior executives of Star breached their duties in relation to the handling of risks associated with money ...

Binance Australia to pay $10m over deliberate customer misclassifications

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2026
The Federal Court has ordered Oztures Trading, known as Binance Australia Derivatives, to pay $10 million after it was found to have misclassified more than 85%, or 524, of its retail clients between July 2022 and April 2023. ASIC commenced legal proceedings ...

Super funds must protect members, says Kirkland

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2026
... in relation to Shield and First Guardian and have returned more than $420 million collectively to around 4000 members. A court ruling last Friday determined that Macquarie breached the Corporations Act by failing to place Shield on a watch list. However ...