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Local custody assets hit record $5.6tn

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
Custodians' asset pools grew by 3% in the first half of the year, with HSBC's securities services division recording the largest jump. Statistics from the Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA) show total assets under custody held on behalf ...

ASIC freezes assets of First Mutual Private Equity

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
The Federal Court imposed urgent interim orders to freeze the assets of First Mutual Private Equity (FMPE) and its sole director Gregory Raymond Cotton, with ASIC concerned more than $50 million of investor funds is at risk. ASIC is investigating FMPE ...

Netwealth reports record FY25 results

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
Netwealth Group has delivered its results for the financial year ending June 30, recording "exceptional growth" across all key metrics. Netwealth recorded funds under administration (FUA) of $112.8 billion, which was a 28.2% surge from FY24, while total ...

Perpetual flags $153.7m impairment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
Perpetual has flagged there will be a non-cash impairment charge of around $153.7 million, post-tax, in its FY25 results after completing impairment testing for the financial year. Perpetual said the non-cash charge includes an additional impairment ...

ASIC warns of 'sharp rise' in financial misconduct

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
New data shows a significant rise in the number of misconduct reports made to ASIC, with more than half of the complaints impacting retail investors. ASIC's half-year reports of misconduct data shows that there were 7561 reports of misconduct from 1 ...

VG1 replaces investment manager, books massive loss

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
VG1 Partners Global Investments (VG1) appointed a new investment manager after booking an operating loss of $17.6 million and delivering net portfolio returns of -3% for the last financial year. Regal Partners appointed Paul Moore to be the investment ...

Global X ETFs on a hiring spree, readies for $12bn FUM

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
Global X ETFs can't seem to stop hiring, adding five new team members to its operations this month as its asset base tips over $11 billion in June, well ahead of its FUM target. Adding AI muscle to its technology team, Global X has hired David Croft ...

HUB24 reports record inflows, user growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2025
HUB24 achieved close to $20 billion in inflows in FY25 and reported a 68% increase in profit. Released today, HUB24's annual results show the platform had $19.8 billion in inflows over the year, $4 billion of which came from large migrations. In the ...

ASIC turns spotlight on direct life sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2025
ASIC is warning life insurers to do better when it comes to their direct sales practices that have placed doubt on their compliance obligations and put consumer outcomes at risk. While some life insurance firms have improved since ASIC's 2018 review ...

Fidante loses $11.4bn in insto money

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2025
Challenger's Fidante Partners lost $11.4 billion in institutional client money in the last financial year with the majority of it exiting fixed income investments. The lion's share of $7 billion in net outflows left fixed income strategies while ...