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Diversa hit with additional licence conditions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 DEC 2025
... Shield and First Guardian collapses. APRA said it has concerns relating to Diversa's investment governance frameworks and practices, including oversight of platform investment options made available to members. This comes in the wake of ASIC launching ...

Most read in 2025: Superannuation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 DEC 2025
... will also be indexed to the Consumer Price Index each year. ASIC calls out super trustees over 'weak' anti-scam practices ASIC wrote to superannuation trustees urging them to strengthen anti-scam practices, or risk exposing their members to harm. ...

Netwealth to spend $101m compensating First Guardian victims

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025
... enforceable undertaking from NSS, saying it has demonstrated material weaknesses in its investment governance framework and practices. A review led APRA to hold concerns relating to Netwealth's oversight, knowledge and due diligence of new investment ...

Equity Trustees hit with additional licence conditions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025
... Equity Trustees Superannuation Limited (ETSL) to address concerns relating to its investment governance frameworks and practices, including oversight of platform investment options made available to members. This comes after APRA sent a letter to all ...

AWAG makes two strategic investments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... accretive immediately for AWAG." AWAG said it is also in the process of finalising further due diligence on several other practices, in other domiciles, with the objective of establishing additional central hubs of financial services. At the company's ...

ASIC welcomes support for simplifying guidance on conflicts of interest

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... proportionate and risk-based approach to their obligations and may assess their compliance with industry standards or practices if necessary. "Specifically, we will take industry standards or codes of conduct into account if the law or your AFS licence ...

ASX to undergo 'circuit breaker' reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2025
... Clearing and Settlement subsidiaries and their required levels of investment. It also determined that existing supervisory practices have not achieved the desired outcomes. In response to the issues raised by the panel, ASIC proposed a series of actions ...

Hearts & Minds, WAM slash stakes in Corporate Travel Management

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... accommodation agency services provider has been suspended since late August following revelations of creative accounting practices stemming from its UK and Europe operations. Hearts & Minds Investments (HM1) has some 1.25 million shares in CTD, equating ...

Betashares-backed firm names inaugural managing partner

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... deliver these outcomes, and I look forward to deploying our growing institutional-grade capabilities to help advice practices take full advantage of the conducive environment for financial advice in Australia."

ASIC releases legal obligations for private credit funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... standards. "This initiative complements issue of principles issued as a benchmark for firms to urgently assess its current practices, lifting them where necessary. This step will enhance trust and integrity in the private credit fund sector," ASIC said. ...