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Housing Australia Future Fund under audit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2025
... providing long-term debt to Community Housing Providers," IFM said at the time. "This is an important component of the third-party capital required to achieve the Commonwealth Government's goal of delivering 40,000 new social and affordable rental ...

UGC auditor 'comprehensively failed', registration stripped

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
... no loan agreements made. "The evidence showed that the companies' property developments and investments included related party investments, that the security for most of the investments were subordinate to other lenders, that the developments were underperforming ...

FEATURE: Fund admin | Tight Ship

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... enforcement action appear to have occurred at least in part due to several operational failings with an important third-party service provider. "Importantly, the enforcement action is focused on a trustee's management of such failings as a trustee remains ...

Rumours swirl around Perpetual's wealth business sale

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... "Perpetual is continuing to progress the sale of the business and is currently in discussions with more than one interested party. "Perpetual will keep shareholders and the market informed in line with its continuous disclosure obligations." Speaking ...

Feature: Group insurance | Cold comfort

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... eligibility, and providing accurate medical disclosure is imperative, but sometimes, if urgent, they should alert the related party to accelerate the process. "Binding nominations, clean paperwork and no disputes are the biggest accelerators," Au says. ...

Qualitas co-founder trades in equity for $53m

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025
... you must pay attention to, and I agree that they are signs that people should watch closely as should you watch related-party transactions." Lam added that investors should examine the founders' motivation and if the "original thesis of alignment ...

Super risks continue as advice gets all clear

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... that require stronger preventative frameworks." In addition, the report said as funds digitise and rely heavily on third-party administrators, fraud and cyber risk remain critical vulnerabilities. "Weaknesses in account management, identity verification ...

More suitors line up for Iress

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... management without Iress' consent. There can be no certainty that any proposal or offer will be forthcoming from any party, or that any offer, if received, will lead to a binding transaction." Blackstone and Thoma Bravo expressed interest in acquiring ...

Rest Super team defects to Channel Capital

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... and consulting solutions. "We have revisited our approach to operational due diligence (ODD) and expect to appoint a third-party ODD service provider, which will be overseen and complemented by our investment operations capability. This approach will ...

Feature: Compliance | Passing the buck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... the PDS and in line with laws, was the auditor aware of this? Were they doing their job properly?' So that's one party that ASIC has called up as investigating to see if there was a role that the auditors played there," Abood says. The next step ...