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ASIC targets advisers, platforms, research houses in super switching scams

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
ASIC warns it will take a deeper dive into the roles that financial advisers, superannuation platforms and research houses are playing in members being pushed into high-risk investment schemes. The corporate regulator is closely looking at the entire ...

Banned director sentenced for running financial services firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
A former company director has received a prison sentence after he was found to have continued to run a financial services business despite having been banned from doing so. In 2018, Joshua Fuoco was found to have engaged in misleading and deceptive ...

BUSSQ's boardroom brass cleared, CFMEU spend deemed sound

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
... its governance and expenditure practices, particularly its relationship with the CFMEU, and was therefore required to commission a review assessing the fitness and propriety of its board members and financial dealings. KPMG's report concluded that BUSSQ's ...

Chalmers opens economic reform consultation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
... that we're asking to provide ideas and build and advance consensus around them." Those invited include Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood, representatives from the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Business Council of Australia chief executive ...

Super moves: PE exec quits Future Fund for ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... experience across sectors. She currently chairs the Alcohol and Drug Foundation and the NSW Local Government Grants Commission, and sits on the boards of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors, Industry Innovation and Science Australia, and ...

4600 relevant providers yet to meet qualification standards: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
More than 4600 relevant providers have yet to meet qualification standards, according to ASIC, and have only six months to meet the deadline. An ASIC spot check of the 15,610 relevant providers listed in the Financial Advisers Register found that 6426 ...

ASIC calls on AFS licensees to 'step up'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued a warning about share sale fraud after a spike in reports of stolen shares due to identify theft. ASIC said it has conducted an industry review and provided updated guidance for ...

Productivity woes endure in March quarter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... was stagnant in the March quarter and declined over the year, according to the latest figures from the Productivity Commission. Productivity Commission deputy chair Alex Robson said Australia's productivity problem is no flash in the pan, calling it ...

ASIC launches fresh inquiry into ASX

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... coming weeks. It will include secondees from the Reserve Bank of Australia, APRA and Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. ASIC will publish a report of the outcome of the inquiry, which will inform the next steps it may take.

ASIC puts 18 finfluencers on notice amid global campaign

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... million followers to request they remove posts from their social media accounts. Meanwhile, Canada's BC Securities Commission issued 74 letters to YouTubers and others from around the world who promoted listed companies in British Columbia and hand-delivered ...