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Super funds must improve reporting, audits: ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2025
... investments across RSE financial reports, or to understand how reliable the valuations included are. ASIC added that its review of audit files found auditors need to do more to obtain sufficient evidence to provide reasonable assurance about the valuations ...

RBA says ASX has 'considerable work to do'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
... ensure its risk transformation plan is appropriately resourced and implement regular reporting on the plan; conduct a review of business continuity and contingency arrangement across the CS facilities; and comprehensively improve data and reporting controls ...

ASIC report a 'solid point of reference' for private credit guardrails

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2025
... Frontier has been working with its super fund clients on for several years now, having been informed by its own independent review of the private credit sector, both overseas and at home. Meantime, the Financial Services Council (FSC) welcomed the findings ...

Insurers' approaches reinforcing mental health stigma: Life CCC

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2025
... mental health conditions from securing life insurance. It comes after the Council of Australian Life Insurers signalled a review of the Life Code, commencing on October 1, following the increase in payouts for mental illness. The Life CCC recognised ...

ASIC takes aim at super, private markets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2025
... members in balancing the objectives of the covenant," she said. Constant said the regulator is preparing to complete a review of member communications targeting retirement, which will be ASIC's first standalone thematic review since the implementation ...

Shield-linked advice firm director, compliance manager banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
... debacle. They are Isaac McQueen, Matthew Bradley, Rocco D'Amelio, and Robert Crossing. MWL has lodged an argent review of the orders, including the AFSL's cancellation, seeking an immediate stay and review of the ban for Maikousis. On behalf ...

Performance test review to allow funds to 'innovate'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
... Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief executive Mary Delahunty has welcomed the Treasurer's review of the superannuation performance test, saying modernising the test will provide the certainty and flexibility funds need to maximise ...

Super funds should prompt members on death benefits: SCA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
... death benefit nomination. "Super Consumers Australia is calling on the federal government to undertake an independent review of how the super death benefit system is working," SCA said. "An independent review could get to the bottom of whether the system ...

Decade-long ban for UGC director upheld

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
... upheld ASIC's decision to ban United Global Capital (UGC) director Joel James Hewish for 10 years, after he lodged a review of the ban handed down in June 2024. The Tribunal conducted two hearings since the application and have ultimately rejected the ...

Trump signs order to open 401(k)s to private markets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... an executive order to allow alternative assets, including cryptocurrencies, into 401(k) plans. The order calls for a review of the Department of Labor's guidance on fiduciaries' duties in relation to alternative assets in 401(k) plans governed by the ...