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Rest Super team defects to Channel Capital

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
Rest Super's operational due diligence team is defecting to Channel Capital in a major coup for the local investment manager. The move comes as Channel Capital launches a specialist global operational due diligence (ODD) business to meet growing ...

Feature: Compliance | Passing the buck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
The retirement savings of thousands of Australians have been lost in the First Guardian and Shield failures and, while investigations are ongoing, the blame for their collapse and the misconduct that led to it is being passed around like a football ...

APRA lifts final Westpac capital add-on

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... highest civil penalty in Australian history. Chief among the bank's failures were in its reporting and to reasonably monitor customers for transactions related to possible child exploitation. It also failed to assess the money laundering and terrorism ...

ASIC exposes holes in managed funds' offshoring cyber controls

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025
... due diligence. The regulator also reviewed offshoring practices of AFSLs and found that many fail to adequately assess, monitor and audit their arrangements thus putting their processes and business at risk. Additionally, after assessing two large fund ...

ASIC slams licensees' lax offshoring governance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2025
Most financial advice licensees that rely on offshore service providers (OSPs) fail to adequately assess, monitor and audit their arrangements thus putting their processes and business at risk, a new ASIC investigation reveals. ASIC's review of 10 financial ...

Super moves: CareSuper, Hostplus, Cbus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
CareSuper has appointed Matt Macdonald as portfolio manager within the private equity team. The private equity specialist joins from AustralianSuper where he worked as a senior investment analyst for over four years. Before that, he spent an equivalent ...

Full automation key for business success, but not investments

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
Financial advisers are moving to automate many business processes, but investment automation remains limited as they look to maintain control over decision-making. The AdviceTech 2025 Turning Data Into Growth report, based on over 300 financial advice ...

Platform trustees told to improve investment governance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2025
... and review and confirm their accountabilities under the Financial Accountability Regime. "APRA will actively and closely monitor steps taken by platform trustees. Where planned enhancements or implementation are assessed inadequate, platform trustees ...

ASIC sues Fiducian for ESG failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... Newcrest Mining and Orica. ASIC also alleges the PDS of the fund contained false and misleading statements that it would monitor the portfolio exposure and investment styles of the underlying funds in circumstances where Fiducian did not have the requisite ...

3500 advisers at risk as deadline looms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2025
ASIC is urgently calling on financial advisers to review the accuracy of their Financial Adviser Register profile if they intend to continue providing advice into 2026 and beyond. The regulator said, based on current information, some 3459 advisers ...