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Sale of Interprac raises eyebrows at ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2026
... no article would be published until the transaction had been announced to the market. Sequoia was in a trading halt at the time. However, Crole has since conceded he confused Professional Planner with another publication and that no such discussion occurred ...

US, Iran agree to cease fire, outlook remains 'uncertain'

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2026
... Iran, confirmed by both parties, has seen an immediate market reaction with oil prices dipping below US$100 for the first time since the US launched its attacks. The agreement arrived a day after an ultimatum, issued by US President Donald Trump, threatening ...

Treasury proposes lead generator, super switching reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2026
... under the licensing regime. Anit-hawking prohibitions in the Corporations Act aim to protect consumers from uninvited real-time contact. Treasury is now considering a broad-based ban on non-consumer initiated real-time contact and to "tighten the conditions ...

Treasury opens CSLR funding, sustainability consultation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2026
... review, it still has no credible plan to stabilise the scheme. Once again Labor's solution is a bigger tax," he said at the time. Mulino said the three-tier waterfall would provide a consistent and repeatable mechanism for allocating funding shortfalls. ...

Viridian targets double-digit growth

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2026
... sharper focus on governance and accountability," Shahien said. Shahien said as the advice sector faces scrutiny, now is the time for advisers to be proactive. "The industry has had lots of different evolutions in terms of being bashed and being really ...

Dimon warns private credit crisis will hurt retail investors most

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2026
... be expected that some credit providers will do a far worse job than others. We have not had a credit recession in a long time, and it seems that some people assume it will never happen," he said. In his annual letter to investors, BlackRock chief executive ...

AQR picks SG Hiscock & Company as distribution partner

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2026
Quantitative investor AQR Capital Management has appointed SG Hiscock & Company (SGH) as its distribution partner. SGH has begun rolling out the AQR Wholesale Managed Futures Fund to sophisticated investors. The actively managed fund invests in futures ...

Calm urged as global markets look 'increasingly unstable'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2026
... available". "No central bank wants to relive the stagflation of the 1970s, yet that risk is becoming harder to dismiss. At the same time, the US faces a growing fiscal burden, with debt servicing becoming materially more expensive as older debt is refinanced ...

Adviser exam pass rate exceeds 70% for the first time in 12 months

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2026
The pass rate has surpassed 70% for the first time in a year. In the March exam cycle, 292 sat the exam and 209, or 71.6%, passed the exam. Some 227 (77.7%) sat the exam for the first time. Unsuccessful candidates will receive general feedback on areas ...

CSC to increase TPD premiums for PSSap members by 43.5%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2026
... increase, depending on their individual waiting periods. The hike in TPD premiums for PSSap members comes around the same time as a similar increase is to be rolled out for AustralianSuper's insured members. On average, members within the AustralianSuper ...