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Special feature: Shaping private markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
Custodians are stepping up as regulators target super funds' $3.5 trillion private asset rush. Australia's super funds face mounting scrutiny over their rapid shift into private markets, as concerns grow about transparency, valuations and liquidity ...

James Mawhinney contravened law: Federal Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2025
... Notes, M Core Fixed Income Notes and Australian Property Bonds - across various periods between 3 July 2019 and 5 May 2020. Judge Button also found that the Mayfair 101 Group companies engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct from 11 March 2020 and ...

L1 Capital, Platinum seal merger deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025
... weeks... we're viewing this as a major, positive inflection point for the L1 funds." "... I just ask that you please judge us on the history and what we've done for shareholders in the past." According to Peters, the prevailing sentiment of discussions ...

Banned director sentenced for running financial services firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... "the most serious incident of contempt of court in recent years." His sentence is to be suspended for two years, with the judge saying he wanted to give Fuoco "one last chance." Between March 2019 and April 2023, he was found to have been involved in ...

BUSSQ's boardroom brass cleared, CFMEU spend deemed sound

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
Queensland-based industry super fund BUSSQ, which has ties to the scandal-plagued Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining, and Energy Union (CFMEU) through its board, emerged largely unscathed from an independent report by KPMG. BUSSQ was hit with ...

Australian firms may face 'intense competition': RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) deputy governor Andrew Hauser said the effects of US President Donald Trump's tariffs may increase competition for Australian firms operating in China. Hauser said he visited China just after Trump's "Liberation Day" ...

Former director sentenced over 'test' trading accounts

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... of the misconduct and will deter others from committing in similar conduct. "When handing down the sentence, her Honour Judge David found the offending serious, characterising Mr McCabe's conduct as 'highly deceptive'," Court said. "Her Honour noted ...

Former Sydney adviser sentenced to three years

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... and been barred from leaving the country in 2023 ; he was subsequently charged in the following year. In sentencing the judge remarked that Valvo was "clearly in a position of trust and he broke the trust of the 12 victims for whom he was supposed to ...

HCF Life fined $750k for misleading contract term

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
... or symptoms of the condition existed prior to the customer entering the contract, even if a diagnosis had not been made. Judge Jackman also found that HCF Life could deny coverage even if the customer was not aware of the pre-existing condition when ...

FAAA calls for stronger consumer protections in advice reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
The Financial Advice Association of Australia (FAAA) has opposed collective charging for "always complex and costly" retirement planning advice and emphasised the need for consumer protection in the provision of super nudges in its submission to Treasury ...