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Frontier calls for better unlisted asset valuations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
... to hold fund managers to account regarding the accurate valuation of unlisted assets. The consulting firm was spurned to action amid robust growth in the superannuation sector, with an increased focus on unlisted assets. This trend has caught the attention ...

AMP loses BOLR changes class action

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
... longstanding adviser contracts with a view to saving shareholders' money. In July 2020, the advisers filed the class action against AMPFP. At the time of filing, The Advisers Association (TAA) chief executive Neil Macdonald said its AMPFP members ...

Super fund ESG options underweight BHP, overweight CSL

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023
... address every social ill facing Australia. "This makes running a super fund portfolio in light of all the ESG and climate action constraints akin to walking a high wire tightrope," he said. "Plus, through following the Sustainable Development Goals and ...

Could the anti-woke movement come to Australia?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
... the footsteps of the US. The US Right, Lynch explained, perpetuate the narrative that a defenestration of the industrial class is occurring through mechanisms like ESG: "woke politics through an economic backdoor", and that has reinforced the Trumpism ...

AFCA outlines systemic issues in wealth management

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2023
... market determinations in relation to CFDs. Meanwhile, as previously reported by Financial Standard, IG Markets faces a class action launched by Piper Alderman and Omni Bridgeway. The lawsuit represents investors who allegedly lost hundreds of millions ...

Class action commenced against IG Markets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023
Piper Alderman and Omni Bridgeway have filed their class action against IG Markets, representing investors that lost hundreds of millions trading contracts for difference (CFDs). In October 2022, the two firms said they were planning an action against ...

Funding boosts ASIC greenwashing remit

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... have to act on this area," Jones said. "The government is also acutely aware of the relationship between the taxonomy and action on greenwashing. It's my view that unless we get the taxonomy right, the enforcement action by ASIC will only be able ...

ASIC cans Binance AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2023
... water with several overseas regulators. In the US, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission filed a civil enforcement action charging Changpeng Zhao, the group's chief executive, and three entities for violating the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC ...

Magellan FUM continues backwards slide

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023
... $3.9 billion, which included net retail outflows of $0.5 billion and net institutional outflows of $3.4 billion. By asset class, the fund manager experienced a loss of $3 billion in its Australian equities, falling from $9 billion to $6 billion over ...

Pay gap bill passes, effective next year

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2023
... goes hand in hand with closing the gender super gap," said HESTA chief executive Debby Blake "Our super system is world class, but its design continues to disadvantage certain groups, including women, many of whom continue to experience an intolerable ...