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IRESS advances surprise bid for OneVue

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
In a surprise announcement this morning, IRESS made an offer to acquire OneVue, whose shareholders have been waiting on the company's previously-announced buyback and recovery of money owed to it by Sargon entities. IRESS is offering to buy all ...

Receivers appointed to Mayfair 101 entity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
Receivers have been appointed to Mayfair 101's IPO Wealth, with Mayfair slamming the decision by the trustee and claiming this won't harm its Dunk Island development. Vasco Trustees Limited, the trustee of IPO Wealth, advised that on 22 May ...

Government offers guidance provision relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
Company directors will not be liable for missing financial guidance targets for the next six months, after the government temporarily amended continuous disclosure provisions to help firms through COVID-19. The amendments, introduced today, ensure companies ...

ASIC revokes AFSL suspension, cancels another

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of a financial services provider and revoked its suspension of a separate AFSL. The regulator revoked the ASFL of NSW-based Tailormade Financial Strategies, effective 9 April 2020. ASIC said it cancelled the AFSL because ...

Powerwrap inks strategic partnership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
Powerwrap is now the global administration partner of a New York based alternative investments platform provider. The Australian platform provider has inked a deal to be administration partner of Qualis Capital. The firm is new on the scene, and plans ...

Active share, past outperformance can predict returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
A new study argues that separately managed accounts with high active shares and a history of outperformance can be expected to continue delivering in the future. Active share, which was introduced by Cremers and Petajisto in 2009, is calculated as the ...

ISA, ME Bank issued please explain

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
Industry Super Australia and ME Bank will front the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics on Thursday for an urgent hearing. The call for explanations from the bank and ISA comes following news that ME Bank, which is owned by 26 industry ...

AFSL pleads guilty to mishandling client money

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
In the first case of its kind in Australia, an AFSL is facing criminal prosecution for mishandling client monies, and has pleaded guilty. Pershing Securities Australia Pty Ltd (PSAL) pleaded guilty at the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney to mishandling ...

ME Bank saga could impact super funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
ME Bank has come under fire after customers received letters telling them the redraw balances on their mortgages had been dramatically slashed without any warning. One letter from ME Bank, seen by Financial Standard, showed a customer's redraw balance ...

Former AFSL director banned

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of Olive Financial Markets following concerns that it had not complied with its obligations as an AFS licensee and that it was likely to contravene its obligations in the future. Olive Financial applied to the Australian ...