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ASX suffers another outage

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
The ASX has confirmed it is investigating an issue which was impacting the publication of company announcements. The outage began at 8:59am AEDT, and some annoucements were being published as of 11:22am AEDT after the ASX implemented an initial remediation ...

ASIC suspends Newcastle advice firm's AFSL over missing key person

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
ASIC has suspended the AFSL of Focused Financial Advice (FFA) until December 19, which has operated for more than two years without a key person. FFA was established in 2003 and provides financial services around superannuation, life insurance, retirement ...

Brookfield, GIC chase $4bn acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
Brookfield and GIC Investments have made a $4 billion bid for National Storage REIT (NSR). NSR confirmed it has received a proposal from Brookfield and GIC to acquire 100% to the REIT for $2.86 cash per stapled security. The proposal is subject to a ...

Australian Ethical Super handed extra licence conditions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
The prudential regulator has flagged concerns over the fund's investment management arrangements with its parent company and whether the fees involved are in members' best financial interests. APRA reviewed Australian Ethical Superannuation's related-party ...

Government cracks down on financial abuse via coerced directorships

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
The government has opened consultation to combat financial abuse in families perpetrated through coerced directorships. The consultation paper by the Treasury noted that financial abusers can exploit loopholes in tax and corporate systems, weaponising ...

Clime shutters two funds, offloads retail book

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2025
Clime Investment Management is shuttering two funds, one of which is under an ASIC investigation, and will offload its retail client book for $1.65 million to an undisclosed financial advice practice. At the annual general meeting last week, Clime chair ...

Super SA introduces indexed options

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025
Super SA is rolling out several new investment options across some of its schemes, including two indexed options. From December 1, Super SA is making two new indexed options available to Triple S scheme members - Indexed High Growth and Indexed Balanced. ...

T. Rowe and Oak Hill launch flexible credit income fund

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025
T. Rowe Price and Oak Hill Advisors (OHA) have launched the Flexible Credit Income Fund AUD (OFLEX AUD), specifically designed for wholesale investors. OFLEX AUD leverages OHA's best ideas, seeking to deliver income by lending primarily to large cap ...

APRA stress tests for potential ASX failure

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
APRA is undertaking its first exploratory system risk stress test for superannuation funds and major banks, it revealed in its inaugural System Risk Outlook report. The prudential regulator said the new system risk stress test would be completed in ...

FAAA launches digital client identification tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) will launch a digital client identification tool to assist advisers identify and verify their clients for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) purposes. FAAA SafeID, an end-to-end ...