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Centrepoint Alliance acquires two advice firms

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2026
Centrepoint Alliance will acquire Queensland financial advice practices Cairns Wealth and Pinnacle Wealth for $3 million from Astute Financial Management. The two practices, which operate within the Astute network, will add three advisers to Centrepoint ...

APRA slaps additional licence conditions on HTFS Nominees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2026
... notwithstanding any change of ownership to HUB24 Limited, which may implement new investment governance and oversight practices for HTFS." HTFS Nominees is one of EQT's two superannuation trustee entities. The other is Equity Trustees Superannuation ...

More advisers go self-licensed to avoid associative risks

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2026
... knowing what should sit inside the business and knowing what should be supported externally," Euvrard said. "The best practices will not be the ones who do the most internally, they will be the ones who design the most intelligent operating systems." ...

Heightened cyber threats require greater accountability on governance

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2026
... said. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has recently ramped up its supervision on risk management practices for regulated entities, which noted the increasingly sophisticated cyber threats enabled by AI models. Jurd echoed the regulator's ...

APRA funding levy rises to $253m

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2026
... levy will also be used for "intense scrutiny of fund-level expenditure to hold RSE licensees accountable for improving practices, reducing spending that is deemed not in members' best financial interests and promoting the financial interests of their ...

ASIC, APRA target insurers' TPD product sustainability

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2026
... reflects the latest TPD risk profile. On this matter, APRA emphasised the importance of robust reserving and pricing practices, so assumptions keep pace with the latest claims experience and emerging risk trends. ASIC said insurers must continue to handle ...

Financial services failing to provide consistent outcomes: AFCA

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
... oversight mechanisms and responses to vulnerability function in practice," AFCA said. AFCA presented what appropriate practices would look like to avoid the issues. Some of those metrics included clearer operational control for consistent implementation ...

Feature: Private credit | The fine print

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
... wholesale funds in a bid to calibrate baseline data needs across the sector. It also plans to address areas of poorer practices within wholesale private credit funds. Torrington says a lot of the money going into private credit is also coming through ...

UniSuper pilots' digital estate planning partnership with Safewill

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2026
... additional legal advice through Safewill Legal for a $199 fee. Safewill said the platform uses encryption and privacy practices compliant with the Australian Privacy Act to protect member information, while completed Wills are reviewed by affiliated ...

APRA sharpens oversight, flags tech and geopolitical risks

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2026
... disruptions. However, APRA warned heightened uncertainty globally required stronger vigilance and more robust risk management practices across regulated entities. APRA chair John Lonsdale said strong capital positions, liquidity buffers and prudential ...