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FSCP serves up registration prohibition order

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023
The Financial Services and Credit Panel (FSCP) has slapped a financial adviser with a "registration prohibition order" for being insolvent under administration. Timothy Leslie Anderson's registration as a relevant provider has been revoked from ...

IFM Investors appoints global head of strategy

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2023
... officer at Holland Capital Management. Her experience also includes senior roles at Barclays Funds and Advisory, as well as Credit Suisse. Misra, who is based in London, reports directly to IFM chief strategy officer Luba Nikulina. She'll spearhead ...

Private markets make concrete inroads with advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023
... In October, it partnered with iCapital to provide advisers access to global wholesale managed funds investing in private credit and hedge funds. Charles Badenach, principal and private client adviser at Main Street Financial Solutions, sees sophisticated ...

Barings prepares new strategies for local institutional investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023
... providers are stepping in with solutions such as levered unitranche structures to better serve borrower's needs. "Private credit mainly competes on flexibility for borrowers, and also offers relatively more pragmatic structures; these deals are usually ...

Former adviser convicted over false documents

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2023
... the insurer. In 2017, the corporate regulator permanently banned Fong from providing financial services or engaging in credit activities. Three years later, Fong was charged and granted conditional bail. While he initially attempted to appeal ASIC's ...

Super funds increasing offshore investment, currency hedging lessens: NAB

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023
... while funds are continuing to increase offshore holdings, they are also favouring unlisted asset classes, with private credit and unlisted international infrastructure the most favoured asset class, followed by unlisted property. This is in contrast ...

Young women report low financial literacy: NAB

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2023
... "Financial literacy is about more than being able to put together a budget; it extends to understanding how to manage a credit card to your advantage and being able to figure out the best way to make big purchases happen." Chambers said the research ...

Maple-Brown Abbott loses sales head

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2023
... Joe Millward noted that Hodnett's appointment reflects the heightened investor focus on the attractiveness of private credit as an asset class, with middle-market direct lending being a rapidly growing strategy. "Continued strong corporate borrower ...

Small, large entity regulation needs balance: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2023
... prudential regulation in contrast to a series of regional bank failures such as Silicon Valley Bank and the collapse of Credit Suisse. "It was probably the test of the [Australian] financial system that we've got and the prudential regulation that ...

ASIC freezes out former Magnolia Capital director

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2023
ASIC has banned former Magnolia Capital Group director Mitchel Atkins from managing corporations and providing financial services. Atkins was a director of Magnolia Capital, which went bankrupt in 2022, owing unsecured creditors millions of dollars. ...