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Super funds a "standout" in risk and compliance hiring: Kaizen

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2025
Superannuation funds have been a standout driver of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) hiring, according to a report by Kaizen Recruitment. The latest salary guide by the recruitment firm found pockets of resilience and emerging opportunities in ...

ASIC cracks down on adviser CPD failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
... adviser. ASIC said it is important financial advisers remember continuing professional development is "not merely a compliance obligation to tick off", but that it is important to maintain competency and improve knowledge and skills. ASIC said it will ...

Super moves: AustralianSuper,HESTA, Rest

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... after three years at Cbus Super Fund, Kevin Hong has been named senior manager in the investments operational risk and compliance team at Rest. Before joining Cbus Super as a risk and compliance analyst, he worked at ANZ in acquisitions and valuations ...

Majority of SMSF establishments based on bad advice: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... retirement savings at risk, an ASIC review reveals. Of 100 financial advice files investigated, 62 failed to demonstrate compliance with the best interests duty. One quarter of these raised significant concerns about client detriment relating to recommendations ...

Feature: Retirement | The right mix

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... "part of the practice's ecosystem" and tied to his firm's DNA. "It offers AI file note capability, it's got compliance tools," he says. "It even generates a Record of Advice that we have to produce to meet our obligations. "So, it does all ...

Outsourcing will 'supercharge' value of advice: Netwealth

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2025
... three for average firms (37%). Numbers were closer for advice-related activities, such as paraplanning (49% and 46%), compliance (42% and 34%), and mortgage and loans (33% and 27%). AdviceTech Stars were, however, found to have lower outsourcing numbers ...

ASIC confirms investigation into a Clime fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2025
... watchdog set the record straight, stating that it has commenced an investigation into the fund with respect to its compliance with the target market determination (TMD) and product disclosure statement, and whether it has breached the law in relation ...

ASIC reveals findings from reporting and audit surveillance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2025
... reporting and audit 2024-25 outlined findings from company financial reporting and audit surveillances; enforcement and compliance actions against registered company auditors; outcomes relating to company financial reports; and observations on auditor ...

Treasury seeks feedback on foreign investment reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2025
... stakeholders," it said. "A stronger framework will manage risk, deter bad actors and appropriately penalise serious non-compliance with strong and flexible powers to manage high-risk investment to ensure that Australia's national interest and national ...

Crown Wealth director banned for two years

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2025
... (which did not involve direct client contact or the provision of financial advice) rather than involve himself in the compliance and reporting obligations of Crown Wealth, and that his inaction and inattentiveness to these obligations was a serious lapse ...