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ASX to spend $264m to modernise tech, uplift risk management

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has flagged a jump of 20% in its total expenses to $264.4 million in the first half of the financial year, after it agreed to implement a package of reforms to improve its operations last year. ASX updated its ...

Post-holiday blues drives retirement tool engagement

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
Reviewing data collected from the past two years, HESTA found members' interaction with its Future Planner retirement tool spikes around the end of the school holidays as the working year gathers pace. HESTA found that in late January and early February ...

Inflation 'uncomfortably high' as it rises to 3.8%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2026
... would worsen the pain and pose a greater threat than temporary inflation fluctuations." As a result, ACOSS is calling for action to protect people doing it toughest, with a lift to JobSeeker and related payments to keep people out of poverty and investment ...

Former UGC adviser's appeal against ASIC ban accepted

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2026
A former United Global Capital (UGC) financial adviser has had his banning order shrunk by half after a successful appeal to the Administrative Review Tribunal. Milutin Petrovic was banned from providing financial services or performing any function ...

Rodney Forrest handed prison sentence for $3m insider trading

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2026
Former investment manager Rodney Forrest has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment for insider trading and procuring others to trade in more than $3 million of Platinum Asset Management shares. In August 2024, Forrest secretly accessed the computer ...

'Gross breach of trust': Former adviser sentenced to six years imprisonment

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2026
Former financial adviser from Western Australia, Anthony Paul Torre, has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment. Torre's sentencing was backdated to 29 January 2025 in a verdict handed down by the District Court of Western Australia. Torre ...

Gold soars over Trump's Greenland rhetoric

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
... record highs underscores its importance as a strategic portfolio diversifier as we move through 2026. "We view recent price action not as a signal to chase performance, but as confirmation that the macro conditions under which gold has historically added ...

HUB24 advances HTFS Nominees takeover, FUA hits $152bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026
... superannuation trustee entities. The other is Equity Trustees Superannuation Limited (ETSL), which is currently facing legal action from ASIC, accused of not doing enough to prevent superannuation members losing millions of dollars from the Shield Master ...

ASIC returns $40m of CFD losses

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026
... they are being offered," Constant said. "ASIC will continue to act decisively, and where appropriate, will take further action to address misconduct and reduce consumer harm." ASIC said CFDs are complex, leveraged, OTC products that can expose retail ...

Alexis George to retire, new AMP chief named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026
Alexis George is stepping down at AMP, with chief financial officer Blair Vernon named as her successor. George will retire from executive roles on March 30, bringing to an end more than 30 years in financial services. George joined AMP in August 2021 ...