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Prime Value licence suspended over reporting failures

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2026
... requirements and failures to lodge compliance plan audit reports for some of its retail managed investment schemes. While those issues have been rectified, the regulator said the reporting failures warranted regulatory action. Under the suspension, Prime ...

Swedish PE giant sweetens offer bid for Perpetual

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2026
... operations further. The next question will be whether asset management should likewise be retained given the structural issues there with continued, broad net outflows a warning sign for future earnings," Curko said.

Special Feature: Rewarding patient capital

PENNY PRYOR  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2026
... sophisticated enough to use a lot of private market type product, there is also an understanding that private equity has had some issues, and so it may be there's a little bit of a wait-and-see attitude as well," she said. But FinCap founder Christian ...

Treasury looks to reform regulation on consulting firms

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2026
... separation options in the past. "Structural separation is clearly a cleaner and neater way to deal with some of these conflict issues than saying that firms should manage them more clearly within the firm," he said. He noted he think this wouldn't "ruin" ...

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

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2026
... and Laos received 34 points each. MSCI has threatened to strip Indonesia its emerging market status due to "structural issues in the opacity in shareholding structures and concerns about coordinated trading." For these reasons, MSCI froze Indonesia's ...

ASX to focus on pattern of problematic behaviour in listed entities

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2026
... and type of announcements that are referred to it prior to release. "We have observed that when we intervene to address issues with an announcement prior to release, there is no broader educational effect if we identify and correct a material issue ...

KPMG details action plan to address whistleblower probe

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2026
KPMG has detailed a governance overhaul and action plan to address integrity issues across the firm after it admitted its treatment of a whistleblower and investigation into their allegations fell short. In effect to this, KPMG national chair Martin ...

FEATURE | Member engagement | On the ball

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2026
... habitual disengagement and, instead, dismiss it in the 'too-hard basket' to prioritise more immediate, pressing life issues such as saving up for a house or investment property. A Colmar Brunton (now Kantar) survey from 2010, for example, found ...

HSBC Bank fined $35m in landmark scam-protection failures

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2026
... accessed victims' accounts by impersonating HSBC Australia staff. The bank took 144 days on average to investigate the issues. ASIC held HSBC Australia against the ePayments Code, which regulates electronic payment facilities. Justice Bennett found ...

APRA embeds geopolitical risks management ground rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2026
... undermining customer and market confidence. "Entities therefore need to be able to identify interdependencies early, escalate issues quickly, make clear decisions under stress, and coordinate responses across business areas and with public sector partners," ...