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ASIC bans unlicensed WA adviser

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
The Australia Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has made an order to permanently ban former Western Australia based financial adviser Neville Kendrick. Kendrick has been banned from providing any financial services, performing any function ...

Smaller super funds unfairly burdened by regulatory levy model: CPA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2025
Members of small and medium-sized super funds have become "collateral damage" in an imperfect regulatory funding model, CPA Australia says, in response to Treasury's proposed levy changes for 2025-26. CPA Australia superannuation lead Richard Webb said ...

Private capital, active ETFs to continue shake up of financial services: Deloitte

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
Private capital, active ETFs and tokenisation are set to take the financial services sector by storm over the next three to five years, Deloitte predicts. Deloitte's 2025 Financial Services Industry Predictions report lays out six major forces that ...

Family offices favour real estate: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
The world's richest families love to invest in real estate more than any other asset classes, a new analysis shows, as more than half feature property in their portfolios. The research conducted by familyofficehub, a provider of global family office ...

ASIC loses Block Earner case

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
The Federal Court has vindicated Block Earner by overturning a decision that it needed an AFSL to offer its Earner product and dismissing ASIC's appeal to impose penalties on the digital asset platform. Justices O'Callaghan, Abraham and Button ...

AustralianSuper says cyberattack losses total $750k

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
AustralianSuper has confirmed of the 600 members who had their accounts accessed in the cyberattack earlier this month, 10 suffered a financial loss totalling $750,000. "Our investigation into this criminal act found a total of 10 members had a combined ...

Falcon Capital, First Guardian fund to be wound up

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025
Following the order to freeze the assets of the First Guardian Master Fund and its responsible entity Falcon Capital last month, the Federal Court has ordered both the fund and the entity to be wound up. In response to a petition by ASIC, the court ...

Trump backflips on tariffs but risks remain

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
US President Donald Trump has agreed to a pause in the reciprocal tariffs imposed on all nations, bar China, in excess of 10% for 90 days to encourage nations to go to the negotiating table. However, China saw tariffs increased to 125%, which will drive ...

Cybercriminals attack major super funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
Cybercriminals attempted to breach the systems of several superannuation funds over the weekend, although most attacks were repelled, thousands have been affected. Rest said fewer than 1% of its members have been affected by unauthorised activity on ...

Market turmoil hits portfolios

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
Following US President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs, major stock indexes on Wall Street dropped as much as 6%, losing $4.9 trillion (US$3.1 trillion) in market value, marking the largest decline since March 2020. VanEck Asia Pacific chief ...