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Baby boomers turn to local private debt: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2024
... Australian private debt has and continues to pay a premium over other major developed markets, including Europe and the US. "In short, this is a scarcity premium," the report said. "There is simply less big money in the Australian private debt sector ...

Family offices still love hedge funds: Preqin

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024
... investors were most disappointed with the performance of their VC portfolios, with 56% of investors saying they had fallen short of expectations." However, it said, most remain optimistic about VC (54.2%), and PE (52.9%) performance in the next 12 months. ...

ASIC succeeds in conflicted remuneration case

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... the steps that RM Capital took to ensure that its authorised representatives did not accept conflicted remuneration fell short of the reasonable steps that s 963F of the Corporations Act required of a financial services licensee in RM Capital's circumstances ...

Low investor demand sees equities funds wound up

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... the asset class," Equity Trustees, again as RE, said. "Given this, we do not expect any further growth in the fund in the short to medium term and as a result we consider the best course of action is to bring about the timely closure of the fund." The ...

ASIC takes further action on Prospero

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
ASIC is pushing for Prospero Markets to be wound up following revelations that it was linked to one of Australia's biggest-ever money-laundering operations. Former officers and responsible managers of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives issuer Prospero ...

Blackwattle Partners launches global fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... experience in financial services. Bangia spent eight years at Antipodes Partners, before leaving in June 2023. He then had a very short-lived tenure as chief investment officer of troubled fund PAC Capital. Three other investment professionals from Antipodes ...

Bloom Impact, MSC pulled up for greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
... fund would not have exposure to investments in controversial weapons companies. ASIC said the fund was directly exposed for short periods of time to securities in Honeywell International Inc, General Dynamics Corp, Leidos Holdings Inc, Northrop Grumman ...

Major decline in group insurance coverage: ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... superannuation system, providing affordable and cost-effective cover that delivers real benefits for those whose working life is cut short by accident or illness and their families," said ASFA chief executive Mary Delahunty. "Legislative constraints ...

Super funds convene with assistant treasurer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024
... super rightly expect," SMC chief executive Misha Schubert said. "But we know that, on occasion, the super sector has fallen short of meeting those expectations - and that's not good enough. This meeting is a clear signal of the sector's shared ...

Bragg calls for another Financial System Inquiry, critiques ASIC, APRA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2024
Senator Andrew Bragg has called for another Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to address "structural problems" in the twin peaks of financial sector regulation, ASIC and APRA. In his speech to the Financial Services Council (FSC), Bragg argued that "clear ...