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Equity Story to raise $3.5m to enter property sector

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... of the business, which includes the launch of new funds, seeding new investment products, enhancing operational and compliance systems, undertaking targeted marketing and investor engagement initiatives, and providing funding to support growth and diversification ...

Feature: Compliance | Passing the buck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... markets have been really strong for a while now, then people get greedy in that environment if you drop your guard on compliance," Gosselin says. "Then it's easier for products to slip through the net. The problem with the net is that there are a ...

ASIC targets funds over 'disappointing' retiree communications

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
... external service providers that develop and deliver retirement communications to ensure the communications meet quality, compliance and strategic expectations. ASIC said it is committed to working alongside APRA to hold super trustees to account for ...

Insurers design framework for dealing with mental health claims

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025
... are now the fastest-growing cause of life insurance claims, particularly impacting younger Australians. The Life Code Compliance Committee (Life CCC) recently admonished many life insurers for continuing to apply blanket mental health exclusions despite ...

ASIC bans another former Lighthouse Partners director

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
... years after she was found to have knowingly charged fees for no service. Former Crown Wealth Group director and head of compliance Andrew Moore was subsequently banned for three years for failing to recognise the seriousness of fees for no service conduct ...

ASIC reports 50% jump in investigations in FY25

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
... and the regulator was working on a simplification process. "Our experience is that simpler regulation enhances both compliance and our ability to take enforcement action. It's good for consumers, investors and businesses," Longo said. "At last year's ...

Full automation key for business success, but not investments

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... and flows into key areas like faster onboarding, smoother client meetings, personalising client reporting at scale, compliance monitoring, and investment automation. "Across advice, administration, and reporting, most major processes are at least partially ...

ASIC raises alarm on auditor independence, conflicts of interest

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... still constitute a prohibited relationship and threaten independence," ASIC said. Report 817 Building trust: Auditor compliance with independence and conflict of interest obligations names the firms under the spotlight, which included the audit units ...

Platform trustees told to improve investment governance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2025
... to onboarding, ongoing monitoring, and remedial action and member transfers. It found that for many on-boarding is a compliance-driven process that operates in isolation, without any clear consideration of how individual investment options promote members' ...

AWAG to snap up 20% stake in First Mutual

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2025
... provide shared services and benefits across its product offerings, including centralised professional development, compliance and audit. "AWAG is pleased to be in partnership with a quality and successful business that is focused on disciplined growth ...