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Centrepoint completes $3m client book acquisition

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2026
Centrepoint Alliance has completed the acquisition of the client books and employed advisers from Cairns Wealth and Pinnacle Wealth further expanding its salaried financial advice business. The ASX-listed advice group confirmed final settlement of the ...

Final report into Life Code makes 85 recommendations

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2026
The final report of an independent review of the Life Insurance Code of Practice (Life Code) has been finalised, proposing some 85 recommendations across aspects of mental health, customer vulnerability, claims handling, and sales practices. The review ...

Tribunal shortens financial adviser's five-year ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2026
Financial adviser Christian Henry has scored a partial win in reducing ASIC's five-year ban on providing personal financial advice to three years upon appeal. Henry was initially banned by ASIC while he worked at MWL Financial Services over advice ...

Treasury looks to reform regulation on consulting firms

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2026
Treasury has released an options paper to improve the regulation of accounting, consulting and auditing firms after the blowout from KPMG's whistleblower probe that found it used confidential client data in the pursuit of more tenders. The consulting ...

ETF adoption hits 'meaningful threshold' among SWFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2026
Nearly 40% of sovereign wealth funds have an allocation to ETFs, a new report from Invesco shows, underscoring their expanded roles among institutional investors as their rate of adoption hits a "meaningful threshold". Invesco's Global Sovereign Asset ...

Mercer cuts mandates for Global Listed Property Fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2026
Mercer Investments Australia has again trimmed its fund manager line-up, this time making changes to its Global Listed Property Fund. Effective July 1, Principal Asset Management will be the sole fund manager overseeing the Mercer Global Listed Property ...

ASIC calls out platform trustees: 'Clear breach of trust'

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2026
ASIC has called out superannuation trustees for not doing enough to protect retirement savings of Australians on platforms even after repeated warnings from regulators about the dangers of poor oversight. ASIC's report Safeguarding super: How well are ...

HMC, KKR tie up receives ACCC approval

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2026
The partnership between HMC Capital and KKR, in which the latter will commit $603 million, has been given the good to go by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). The Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) has also approved the deal. ...

Corruption, governance risks: The cost of doing business in emerging markets?

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2026
Beyond a governance issue, corruption is a major deterrence to capital flows, undermines long-term development and carries crippling social costs. Seasoned investors, though, are quick to challenge the notion that corruption and governance risks are ...

ASX to focus on pattern of problematic behaviour in listed entities

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2026
ASX has told listed companies it intends to focus on repeated conduct to ramp up a company's share price through inappropriate use of the market announcements platform. In its Listed Entity Supervision Report 2026, ASX noted over the last 18 to 24 months ...