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Another former Venture Egg adviser slapped with four-year ban

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2026
... Financial with limited interaction between himself and the clients, ASIC said. Hogan commenced his professional year training in February 2022 under the supervision of Merhi of Venture Egg, who has since been charged over his involvement in the Shield ...

FAAA urges inclusion of advisers on occupational shortage list

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
... the advice industry is struggling with a decline in adviser numbers which is not being offset by new entrants; a long training gap and legislated professional year requirements which create a four-year structural lag in workforce supply; and the rising ...

US exceptionalism may have peaked: ART

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
... change, whether it's spending more money on defence, or, frankly, whether it's spending more money in education and training and welfare to help large numbers of people adapt to very, very rapid technological change, the rise and rise of artificial ...

Life insurer sanctioned for invalid access to customer information

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2026
... total, 2171 applications were affected, impacting more than 2000 customers. Although the insurer has since enhanced staff training for underwriting teams, fixed its system to automate valid consent procedures, and employed stronger quality assurance ...

Centrepoint offloads lending solutions business

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2026
... said. The lending solutions business supports brokers and advisers with a credit licence, technology, lending panel, training and education. At the end of June 2025, it serviced 75 brokers with a loan book of $3.4 billion. Astute, in return, will receive ...

Frontier hires senior consultant from JANA

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2026
... development in the battle for talent in the investment consulting ranks. The asset consultant is well known as a nursery or training ground, with numerous industry investment chiefs and other senior investment professionals having started or shaped their ...

FIIG Securities fined $2.5m for lengthy cyber failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026
... qualified IT personnel monitoring threat alerts to identify and respond to threats. There was also no mandatory cybersecurity training for staff, and its cyber incident response plan was not tested on an annual basis. FIIG was ordered by the Federal ...

Australian Unity cops fine for TMD, DDO failures

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2026
... tasked with ensuring compliance with the DDO regime or the "DDO project manager" did not have appropriate experience or training. "This reflects poorly on the 'compliance culture' of AUFM at the time. It suggests that AUFM did not take its regulatory ...

IFS unveils new pathway for industry super fund advice

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
... profitability and scalability. Advisers can also operate confidently with "strong" compliance support, with specialised training, tools, resources and partnerships with industry super funds made available from the program. To ensure a measured rollout ...

Aware Super bets big on data centre boom

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026
... require up to 20 gigawatts of data centre capacity by 2030 - driven by hyperscaler cloud deployments and Generative AI training workloads - the region remains underrepresented on data centre deployments per capita, further highlighting the attractiveness ...