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Genetic testing laws pass parliament

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2026
New laws that ban the ability to discriminate based on adverse predictive genetic test results in life insurance underwriting have passed parliament. Minister for financial services Daniel Mulino said Australians should not feel discouraged from undertaking ...

FEATURE: Estate planning | Best laid plans

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2026
... they need to be vastly different than just superannuation and investment specialists," he warns. "If that's all they know, they will struggle with the EQ conversations, the empathy, the passionate questions that enable clients to feel comfortable ...

APRA shuffles executive director lineup

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2026
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has appointed two new executive directors to fill recent vacancies. Peter Kohlhagen has been promoted from general manager of superannuation to executive director of policy and advice following the ...

Another former Venture Egg adviser slapped with four-year ban

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2026
A Victorian financial adviser, who was supervised by Ferras Merhi of United Financial Advice and Ferras Merhi Pty Ltd (Venture Egg), has been banned for four years over inappropriate advice and deceptive conduct, including impersonating other advisers. ...

Legalsuper chief to take top job at Equip

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2026
Legalsuper will bid farewell to its chief executive Luke Symons, who is set to become chief of Equip Super. It is also losing its chief investment officer. Symons has been named incoming chief executive of Equip Super, taking over on July 1. Last week ...

Binance Australia to pay $10m over deliberate customer misclassifications

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2026
The Federal Court has ordered Oztures Trading, known as Binance Australia Derivatives, to pay $10 million after it was found to have misclassified more than 85%, or 524, of its retail clients between July 2022 and April 2023. ASIC commenced legal proceedings ...

Macquarie 'preparing for all contingencies' as conflict continues

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2026
... think they have been woken up to the fact that they can't just depend on one place," Wikramanayake said. "I don't know that a de-globalised world is the right thing, but it's a more fragmented faction whether it's Europe, the Middle East ...

Inflation remains firm, May rate hike still in play

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2026
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 3.7% in the 12 months to February 2026, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). "The 3.7% annual CPI inflation to February eased slightly from the 3.8% annual CPI inflation to January," ABS head of ...

ETF home bias more prominent amid global unrest: BlackRock

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2026
... also be seen with BlackRock's European ETF being the third biggest gainer this year. "There's probably, 'hey I know, I like and I trust Australian equities and these are names that I am familiar with.' There is always that, of course ...

FEATURE | Regulation: Picking up the pieces

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2026
... in seeing that'," she recalls. About one or two months later, Kee wanted out. "Three months was long enough for me to know that I did not want to stay with them as I was not getting the response I wanted," she says. "I was then told they were 'undergoing ...