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Nearly two years on from the collapse of Sargon, co-founder Phillip Kingston is attempting to have his own liquidators appointed to investigate its demise.

The New Criterion's Tim Boreham highlights some of Australia's oldest listed trustee companies walking the "super" path

Switzer Daily The walls of the Melbourne headquarters of Equity Trustees (EQT) are adorned with the portraits of former prime ministers, premiers and governors-general who have served on the board of the stately 133 year old institution. The roll call of dignitaries includes 19 th century premier Sir Charles Sladen, prime ministers Stanley Bruce and Robert Menzies and former governor general Ninian Stephen. In Marc,h former Abbott/Turnbull era Cabinet minister Kelly O’Dwyer joined the board,...

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Westpac to recover bulk of funds in Sargon collapse Share Westpac will get the lion’s share of leftover money from the sale of a handful of assets which operated under the Sargon umbrella following the collapse of the formerly Phil Kingston-run financial technology business. More than a year after the collapse of Sargon following a loan repayment demand from China state-owned finance company Taiping Trustees, and nearly a year since proceedings got under way in the Federal Court of Australia,...