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Federal Court dismisses Freedom Insurance staff allegations

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
The Federal Court has dismissed ASIC's claims that a former Freedom Insurance director and staff member were engaged in shocking and harmful sales tactics. Judge Goodman did not accept ASIC's claims that former director Keith Cohen and quality ...

Feature: Compliance | Passing the buck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... some loopholes in the law which allow them to sell financial advice unsolicited. So that's a challenge," she says. "A good financial adviser doesn't need lead generation services in order to develop a good pool of financial advice clients that ...

Can IPOs ever recover? Experts aren't sure

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
Despite ASIC and the ASX having displayed a "good regulatory mindset" in revitalising the listed environment, opportunities from the private markets continue to drag initial public offerings' (IPOs) down. In a panel at the Citi Investment Conference ...

FINSIA's struggle to find scale

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... is there is a strong alignment between the sub sectors it caters for and FINSIA caters for. So, we think it's a really good fit between the two." Cox said the response from FINSIA members has been positive and renewal rates are among the highest ...

Superannuation system quality stagnates: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... Sweden, Finland and Norway also received a B+ rating, which determines that a retirement system is structurally sound with many good features, but has some areas for improvement that differentiate it from an A-grade system. The study noted that Australia ...

New 100% tariffs on China: Another TACO moment?

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
... behaviour one iota. Not at all," he said. "We saw Chinese exports and trade surplus at a record high. As much as tariffs are good for raising revenue and stabilising the fiscal situation, in terms of having an impact on the behaviour of Xi Jinping, there's ...

ASIC targets funds over 'disappointing' retiree communications

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
... unlock powerful commercial outcomes: stronger member retention, deeper engagement, and scalable growth." The review observed good and poor practices from 12 participants, including: Australian Meat Industry Superannuation Trust, Aware Super, Brighter ...

Government reviewing $3m super tax

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2025
... concerns with us. In order for us to understand it better, we might have done some modelling, and that is for us to provide good advice to government," she said. Despite confirming conversations around amendments to the legislation have been had, Brown ...

Rest Super deputy CIO lands new gig

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
Rest Super will say goodbye to one of its top investment leaders after Simon Esposito resigned from his role as head of private markets and deputy chief investment officer. The $93 billion superannuation fund for retail workers, confirmed it is currently ...

Soul Patts focused on 'bespoke' private sector investing

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
... really changed. We only increased the share count by 3% but what it has done is opened up a lot more free float, which is good for shareholder liquidity," Barlow added. "It's a much cleaner capital structure, so a much easier business to understand. ...