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Datt Capital lashes board nominees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022
... Capital notes that Ward recently sold a venture to FinClear and that Spork is currently a responsible manager of APP Securities - both companies being competitors to Selfwealth. Datt Capital said: "The requisitioning members (holding ~16% of the company) ...

Partners Group selects RE for new fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2022
... inflationary pressures and expected interest rate rises, we're looking to outperform more traditional fixed income securities, helped by the floating rate nature of the assets in the portfolio. Plus, we want to provide a strong yield for those investors ...

Citi welcomes eight new hires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2022
... previously worked for Citi between 2007 and 2014 but was most recently at Credit Suisse, leading Japan Prime and APAC securities lending. Will Buttigieg will join the equity trading team in July. He has spent the last 17 years at UBS in a range of trading ...

NAB evades AUSTRAC fine for non-compliance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2022
... formal investigation into five of the bank's reporting entities. The entities in question were NAB, JBWere, Wealthhub Securities, Medfin Australia and AFSH Nominees. Upon acceptance of the enforceable undertaking, NAB has undertaken to implement a comprehensive ...

Pension fund pushes for independent chair at Berkshire Hathaway

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
... governance, plain and simple. Public companies should not be run like private firms. Of course, investors can sell their securities if they are dissatisfied with management, but that is not the only option. We can instead assert our rights as shareholders ...

Australia's first-ever Bitcoin ETF to launch next week

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2022
... The race to be the first physically backed Bitcoin ETF in Australia will be between Cosmos Asset Management and ETF Securities. However, these new developments come with interesting caveats. Unlike other global Bitcoin ETFs, Cosmos Asset Management won't ...

SEC rules against Amazon pension case

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2022
The US Securities and Exchange Commission ruled against Amazon's no-action motion to exclude a shareholder resolution asking the company to prepare a report on how employee retirement savings are invested. The shareholder resolution, brought by activist ...

New head of markets, securities services at HSBC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2022
HSBC has announced the appointment of two executives, a head of markets and securities services for Australia and New Zealand and a head of global banking for Australia. Nick Wheeler has been promoted from within HSBC to head of markets and securities ...

FSC offers guidance on divesting Russia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2022
... public market assets such as listed equities, hard currency and local currency Russian sovereign debt, and fixed income securities issued by Russian corporations. They also include private market assets domiciled in Russia such as private equity or unlisted ...

Superhero to offer Qantas points

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2022
... in worldwide work on the changing landscape of retail trading markets as part of the International Organization of Securities Commissions Retail Market Conduct Task Force. The Task Force has identified several emerging concerns coinciding with the unprecedented ...