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4600 relevant providers yet to meet qualification standards: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
More than 4600 relevant providers have yet to meet qualification standards, according to ASIC, and have only six months to meet the deadline. An ASIC spot check of the 15,610 relevant providers listed in the Financial Advisers Register found that 6426 ...

ASIC calls on AFS licensees to 'step up'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued a warning about share sale fraud after a spike in reports of stolen shares due to identify theft. ASIC said it has conducted an industry review and provided updated guidance for ...

Betashares names director of private assets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
James Fleiter, a former member of the institutional sales team at Ares Management Australia, has joined Betashares as the exchange-traded funds provider expands into private credit. Fleiter joins as director of private assets after taking three months' ...

DomaCom Fund names new RE

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... report, the fund at the time was undertaking a strategic review of all NDIS assets. "Fourteen properties are being held for sale due to ongoing challenges with certain NDIS related assets, including a shortage of NDIS participants and an oversupply of ...

Increased local, international demand drives practice valuations

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... continues to outstrip supply. With a shortage of quality financial planning, accounting and mortgage broking business for sale, it remains a great market for sellers to activate their succession plans."

QIC offloads Victorian shopping centre for $440m

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... decades. "Driving performance also means knowing when market conditions are conducive to realising value, and this excellent sale demonstrates QIC's focus on meeting the objectives of our investors," Walsh said. AFM chief investment officer Tim Meurer ...

Royal London Asset Management plants flag in Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
Royal London Asset Management has appointed a Sydney-based regional sales head to expand the firm's footprint in Australia. The UK active investment manager named Kevin Haran to assume the newly created role. Haran will be responsible for establishing ...

Fin365 to build one-stop-shop for financial firms

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
The Victorian-based software solution company for financial services has acquired Qwrk Outsourcing to formulate a one-stop-shop for outsourced services as demand grows. Qwrk was founded in 2010 as a paraplanning firm that transitioned into a full-suite ...

ASX offloads interest in Digital Asset

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... its shareholding in Digital Asset Holdings, the firm it partnered with in 2016 to build the doomed CHESS replacement. The sale price is approximately $57 million, with a pre-tax gain of about $42 million compared to ASX's current carrying value of the ...

BlackRock names new insto lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
After nearly 20 years, Tim O'Sullivan, BlackRock's head of institutional client business, has decided to retire to pursue a family-founded startup venture. As of September, O'Sullivan will leave the financial services industry entirely ...