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ASX to undergo 'circuit breaker' reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2025
The ASX has agreed to a package of reforms aimed at strengthening confidence in Australia's critical market infrastructure, providing certainty about the market operator's reset, and responding to the Interim Report released today by the panel of the ...

ASFA expands financial crime prevention framework for super trustees

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has launched two new tools to help super trustees strengthen their fraud controls. The new features, dubbed the Scams and Fraud Toolkit and the Scams Policy Template, are now available and ...

RBA hike may come as soon as February

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... labour market outcomes similar to what the results are showing us today, but they will still cause pause for thought for the board in terms of how best to set monetary policy in the new year with a labour market that is clearly weakening and an inflationary ...

Brighter Super names acting CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... Energy Super investment chief, who was appointed in early 2022 during the Suncorp superannuation integration, will look for board and advisory positions. Meanwhile, Brighter Super last month announced three strategic appointments. The fund has named ...

HESTA's admin move results in extra licence conditions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... other services. APRA said this resulted in "direct harm to members", saying it has identified "deficiencies in HESTA's board governance and management of risks which rendered HESTA inadequately prepared to effectively oversee and manage the transition". ...

RBA opts to keep cash rate on hold

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
... Bank of Australia (RBA) reached a monetary policy decision to keep the cash rate unchanged at 3.6%. In explaining why, the board warned of possible rate rises in 2026 as it takes a more cautious response to inflationary pressures in the new year. While ...

APRA consults on CPS 230 amendments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
... the needs of regulated entities that maintain material arrangements with non-traditional service providers (NTSPs). APRA board member Therese McCarthy wrote to regulated entities explaining the regulator's proposed changes. They include exempting certain ...

ASIC sues Diversa for First Guardian failures

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... certain sectors and the investment team had "relatively limited experience in managing multi-asset diversified funds", and the board was not constituted with a majority of independent directors. Further, SQM found the fund's liquidity profile was ...

68% pass financial adviser exam: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
... Separately, the CFP's Certification Exam held in November saw a pass rate of 64% for the 3970 candidates who sat it. The CFP board said the November cohort was the second-largest number of people to ever sit the exam. In a post-exam survey, the main ...

Australian businesses most worried about possible recession: Survey

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
Findings from World Economic Forum's Executive Opinion Survey suggest Australian business leaders are most concerned with economic risks like recession in the coming years. The Executive Opinion Survey, conducted in partnership with Zurich and Marsh ...