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ASIC acts against MWL, its director and lead generator

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... a business model that provided inappropriate financial advice to clients to invest their superannuation into the Shield Master Fund (Shield). It's alleged that between May 2022 and February 2024, nine MWL representatives advised at least 556 clients ...

SQM Research faces court over 'favourable' rating of Shield

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
ASIC is suing SQM Research over its 'favourable' rating for the Shield Master Fund, marking the first time the watchdog has acted against a research house. ASIC alleges that the research house failed to obtain information needed to properly ...

Interprac sued over Shield, First Guardian failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... representatives Venture Egg and Rhys Reilly Pty Ltd advised about 6843 clients to invest some $677 million into the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian Master Fund. Of these, Venture Egg and its principal Ferras Merhi advised 2930 clients to invest ...

Majority of SMSF establishments based on bad advice: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... monitoring and supervision activities particularly in the pre-vetting process. Kirkland pointed to the collapses of the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian Master Fund as the "worst-case scenario" for switching superannuation funds based on bad advice. ...

Majority reject crypto investments in super fund: Swyftx

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
Australians do not want their super invested in digital assets, despite some super funds and overseas pension funds dipping their toes in. According to Swyftx's fifth Annual Australian Crypto Survey, based on a survey of some 3009 Australian adults ...

Private credit funds downplay risks, pose risk to financial system: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... valuations," ASIC said. Other funds' valuations were infrequent while some have misaligned valuation frequency between the master and feeder funds. Only two funds perform stress testing as part of their liquidity risk management. ASIC also examined ...

Equity Trustees to ask Mulino for help amid First Guardian, Shield fallout

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2025
... Superannuation Limited does not consider itself responsible for the losses incurred by members who invested in the First Guardian Master Fund (FGMF) or Shield Master Fund. It's estimated about $73 million was lost by Shield investors, while members ...

Crown Wealth director banned for two years

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2025
... aggressively pursued a technical issue against Crown, he said, large-scale investment fund failures such as the First Guardian Master Fund and the Shield Master Fund have caused widespread financial harm to Australians. "The cynic in me would say ASIC ...

PacSuper extends mandate with Perpetual

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2025
... members." The multi-asset solution is managed by Michael O'Dea, the head of multi-asset at Perpetual. Formerly the AON Master Trust, the fund rebranded as PacSuper in April 2024 after it was acquired by PacWealth Capital. On June 1, Chris Hagan became ...

MLC sets sights on top super funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... and one for retirement. "We're very excited to have this innovative product in the wrap already, and coming into the master trust, MLC Super, soon," Woodall said. "All of this is supported by expertise in understanding markets and asset management. ...