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FCA fines Neil Woodford, WIM $94m

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2025
... fundie' Neil Woodford and his defunct company have been collectively fined more than £45 million ($94m) by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The regulator fined Woodford £5.89 million ($12.1m) and banned him from being employed in senior manager ...

PC recommends switch to digital financial reporting

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2025
An interim report from the Productivity Commission (PC) has recommended Australian companies switch to digital financial reporting to allow for data to be better extracted. The report looked at how Australia can better harness the data contained in ...

New chief executive takes IFPA helm

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2025
Ky Wilson has taken over as chief executive of the Institute of Financial Professionals of Australia (IFPA). Wilson took on the role late last month after having served in an acting capacity as general manager for several months. She was previously ...

Guilty plea entered in Ponzi scheme case

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2025
A man who carried on a financial services business without and AFSL and duped investors out of nearly $2 million has pleaded guilty to dishonest conduct and dealing with proceeds of crime. Ashley Arandez pleaded guilty to dishonest conduct, unlicensed ...

PC outlines key reforms to boost clean energy investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2025
... but boosting resilience can reduce the human impact, while limiting labour productivity losses from heatwaves and the financial costs of disaster recovery. The report called on the government to lead work to develop a public database of all climate hazards ...

Treasury launches consultation on CSLR breaching sub-sector levy caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... from stakeholders on the options available for dealing with a revised estimate that exceeds a sub-sector cap. For the financial advice sector, the estimate is larger than the $20 million levy cap. In January, the CSLR announced it estimates that financial ...

Return to office mandates to harm firms, careers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... weakness in the employment market as an opportunity to impose stricter return to office mandates; the unemployment rate in financial services is much higher than the national average, particularly for top earners, the review shows. And now the impacts ...

Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
Financial advisers have heard how an active, factor-based approach can help eliminate the three-body problem in financial advice. In 1867, Sir Isaac Newton identified the three-body problem. Relating to the laws of gravity, he found that it's impossible ...

Betashares adds global bond ETF to lineup

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... resulting in more interest in cash and fixed income ETFs with net flows reaching close to nearly $10 billion over the past financial year. Betashares believes investor interest in fixed income will continue to grow. Betashares chief executive Alex Vynokur ...

Aware Super, TelstraSuper explore merger

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... Both organisations are undertaking a comprehensive due diligence process to ensure the proposed merger is in the best financial interests of their respective members. TelstraSuper said the potential merger represents a significant opportunity to build ...