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Aged care advice needs regulatory intervention: Research

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026
In a new report, The risk of unrelated aged care advice: protecting older Australians and ensuring quality advice paper, Aged Care Steps identifies key issues with how aged care advice is being provided in Australia, calling for reform. Older Australians ...

BTC Markets names chief executive

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2026
... not just in theory," Dobbins said. "That experience will be critical as we scale the business responsibly and continue to raise the bar for what clients expect from an Australian digital asset exchange." These appointments will empower BTC Markets to ...

Petra Capital fined over misreporting of 15k trades

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2026
Sydney-based stockbroking firm Petra Capital has been fined $205,350 by the Markets Disciplinary Panel (MDP) for misreporting information on 3632 orders. The MDP found that Petra had breached the market integrity rules by failing to provide accurate ...

ISS MI acquires Family Office Access

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2026
... managers, insurers and advisers. Family Office Access provides a trove of family office research, and helps clients looking to raise capital, build strategic relationships and navigate the family office sector with more clarity. The platform hosts more ...

Chartered accountants should be allowed to provide advice: CA ANZ

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2026
... expensive for individuals, superannuation funds, tax agents, financial advisers and for the ATO to administer, and will raise little net revenue when all these costs are considered," the submission said. As a solution, CA ANZ is calling on the government ...

Multi-boutique expands to Australia, seeks partners

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2026
... any investment that we take on, we have to be willing to invest in it ourselves. Then we have to be confident that we can raise for it," he said. "The way that we define it is through opportunity costs: Would we be willing to cut down our current positions ...

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
... up, it appears to be game, set and match for a rate rise at the February policy meeting. My base case is that the RBA will raise rates by 0.25%, taking the cash rate to 3.85%," he said. "What's more, if the March quarter 2026 CPI report is also firm ...

Genetic testing ban may drive up insurance cost, premiums: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2026
The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) is concerned the proposal to ban life insurers' use of genetic testing results will have an adverse impact on the cost of life insurance and premiums for all Australians. In a submission, the association ...

AI, operational failures key regulatory risks for ASIC in 2026

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2026
ASIC has said operational failures by superannuation fund trustees as well as the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) will drive the local regulatory space in 2026. Operational failures among super trustees and administrators, such as delays in processing ...