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Regal renews Platinum takeover talks

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024
The potential takeover of Platinum Asset Management is back on the cards as Regal Partners confirmed it signed a confidentiality deed and will shortly commence due diligence. This follows a rejection of Regal's bid late last month, where Platinum's ...

ISG ordered to wind up managed investment schemes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024
The Queensland Supreme Court has ordered the ISG Private Access Fund and the ISG Real Estate Equity Fund be wound up. This comes after ISG and its sole director, Benjamin Godfrey, had applied to appoint receivers to the schemes. ASIC intervened in the ...

ASIC crackdown: Action taken against 13 SMSF auditors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2024
During the first half of 2024, ASIC acted against the registration of 13 approved self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) auditors. ASIC's concerns covered a range of topics, including breaches of auditing and assurance standards, independence requirements ...

Australian Food Super picks TAL for group insurance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
The $3 billion industry superannuation fund has transitioned its group insurance arrangements to TAL. It marks the end of a five-year mandate with AIA, which took over as the fund's group life insurer in September 2019 from MetLife. Effective September ...

Growthpoint sells down majority stake in six industrial assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
NASDAQ-listed alternatives fund manager TPG will acquire a major stake in six assets of Growthpoint Properties Australia's industrial and logistics portfolio. Terms of the agreement will see the US fund manager's subsidiary TPG Angelo Gordon ...

ACCC approves Lendlease, Stockland property deal

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) won't block Stockland and Thai property developer Supalai's plan to acquire 12 of Lendlease's 16 residential community projects, but there are strings attached. The masterplanned communities ...

Global X launches latest global equity ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
Global X has brought to the Australian market the first index-based 'Growth at a Reasonable Price' ETF. The Global X S&P World Ex-Australia GARP ETF (GARP) tracks the S&P World ex Australia GARP Index, holding 250 companies, and charges a management ...

Inflation debate: Albo says rebates will keep inflation down

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has hit back at claims the official inflation figures released this week were only lower due to government rebates, despite what the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data found. Doing the media rounds this morning ...

Inflation cools but RBA unlikely to budge

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicator rose 2.7% in the 12 months to August 2024 - down from 3.5% in July, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Falls in fuel (-7.6%) and electricity (-17.9%) were significant ...

Vanguard to pay $13m in greenwashing case brought by ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
Vanguard will pay a $12.9 million fine after being found guilty of greenwashing earlier this year. It marks the largest penalty ever imposed by the Federal Court for such conduct. In March, the Federal Court found Vanguard misled investors via claims ...