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Younger Aussies want personalised financial advice: CALI

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2025
... Under current laws, life insurers in Australia are legally restricted from providing personal advice to customers. In December 2024, the government committed to reforming this framework to allow life insurers to offer straightforward advice when customers ...

Brookfield takes stake in Cromwell

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2025
... group assets under management (AUM), of which $1.4 billion sits in the funds management business. In its half-year to December 2024 results, Cromwell reported an underlying operating profit of $55.1 million and a $28.6 million statutory loss. ESR Australia ...

AIA Australia welcomes new chief risk officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2025
... experience to the fold. She was most recently at ANZ where she was general manager, enterprise risk for five years to December 2023. She initially joined ANZ in 2012, first at ANZ Wealth and then E*TRADE. She's also previously worked at the Reinsurance ...

CBA head of Australian economics steps down

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2025
... comes after CBA appointed Luke Yeaman as its new chief economist and head of global economic and markets research in December 2024. Yeaman succeeded Stephen Halmarick, who announced plans to depart the bank in August 2024. Halmarick spent 15 years at ...

James Mawhinney contravened law: Federal Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2025
... Judge Button found that another one of his companies, IPO Capital, carried on a financial services business from 2016 to December 2017 without an AFSL. Ultimately, Mawhinney was associated with or involved in the above contraventions, Judge Button said. ...

ASIC bans advisers for dodgy Shield Master Fund advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2025
... medium-high risk investment. Bradley was an authorised representative of MWL Financial Services from 11 October 2017 to 27 December 2021, and from 28 March 2022. ASIC found that Bradley's Statements of Advice (SoA) to certain clients included false and ...

Licensee compliance head banned over fees for no service

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2025
... reportable situations. ASIC published its Regulatory Guide 78 Breach reporting by AFSL and credit licensees (RG 78) in December 2023.

AMP hit with multiple court filings

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... co-owners of Macquarie Centre, could force Dexus to sell its stake, valued at around $830 million. Dexus flagged back in December 2024 that it would seek to appeal the court's decision to force the sale of the asset. Following the forced sale, which ...

Finance news foretells stock market volatility: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
... language used in more than 1.1 million news articles from The Wall Street Journal published between January 2000 and December 2022 and linked it to fluctuations in the S&P 500. They found that disruption-related terms such as "crisis", "recession", and ...

RBA powers deemed 'last resort' for critical financial infrastructure fallout

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
... has recently launched an inquiry into the exchange last month, with the CHESS batch settlement failure that occurred in December last year being folded into the broader inquiry. Previously, ASIC chair Joe Longo said the new rules will limit ASX's ability ...