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- Oct 1, 2026
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KKR wipes $12m from Colonial First State’s executive share plan (opens the original)
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Private equity giant KKR has wiped $12.4 million off the table for Colonial First State executives, cancelling thousands of their equity rights as its sale of the 40-year-old wealth management giant enters its eleventh month. Financial filings show KKR voided more than 2500 shares in the management equity plan during the year to June 30, trimming the management share allocation from 45,500 to 43,000 with little explanation. Gift articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
Wealth chiefs threatened with bonus clawbacks, pay deferrals (opens the original)
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Executives at the country’s fastest-growing wealth platforms may face bonus clawbacks and multiyear delays to these payments if the sector continues to ignore urgent warnings to improve their investment oversight. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s freshly appointed deputy chairman David Bradbury delivered the precautionary shot in his first public comments since starting in the role in September. Gift articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
Clime Investments says ‘cloaked operators’ are attacking its business (opens the original)
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Clime Investment Management risks being suspended from trade by the end of this week if it does not lodge its final audited accounts for the last financial year, while its founder alleged that cloaked operators were attacking the business. If the company misses the deadline of September 30, its shares are likely to be suspended by the ASX, adding to its woes after The Australian Financial Review’s Street Talk reported on Friday that wealth platform Netwealth had barred its private wealth busines
Big super steers clear of Australian private credit over property risk (opens the original)
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The Australian private credit sector is so concentrated with risky property development assets that one of the nation’s largest superannuation funds, the $150 billion Colonial First State, will only invest overseas. The candid assessment comes as the broader pension sector distances itself from the opaque and illiquid asset class after the $3.4 billion collapse of Western Sydney property developer Bathla exposed several top private credit firms and underlined the broader sector’s vulnerability t
Macquarie freezes some Alceon funds amid private credit scrutiny (opens the original)
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Macquarie Group says it has halted investments into two funds available on its wealth platform that are offered by private credit group Alceon, which manages about $5.5 billion, as concerns grow over signs of stress across the shadow banking industry. Australia’s regulators are closely watching the nation’s $200 billion private credit sector after the $3.4 billion collapse of affordable housing developer Bathla Group – which was financed by private credit – and some of the sector’s largest firms
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