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Macquarie half-year profit rises to $1.7bn

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
... framework and culture," Wikramanayake said. It has appointed KPMG as its auditor, to commence in April 2027 subject to regulatory consent.

NRFC invests in brain-computer interface devices

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
... it to be implanted without open brain surgery. Funding will be used to conduct final clinical trials and secure US regulatory approval. The financing will also advance the company's ambitions of establishing a commercial hub to begin conducting clinical ...

ASIC cracks down on adviser CPD failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
... CPD and must include minimum hours across technical competence (five hours); client care and practice (five hours); regulatory compliance and consumer protection (five hours); professionalism and ethics (nine hours); and tax (financial) advice (five ...

HESTA pays $40k fine for greenwashing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... remove the content from publication and self-reported the incident to ASIC," the super fund said. "HESTA takes our regulatory obligations very seriously. We have cooperated with ASIC and taken appropriate action to address its concerns, including further ...

Prime Super fined over tobacco exclusion claims

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
Prime Super paid a penalty of $18,780 after it claimed it "excluded entirely" manufacturers of tobacco products when it had indirect holdings in six companies. ASIC issued an infringement notice to the $8 billion super fund over misleading statements ...

Majority of SMSF establishments based on bad advice: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... relation to the advice. ASIC commissioner Alan Kirkland warned that the next steps involved a consideration of a range of regulatory responses. "This includes enforcement action where we have significant concerns about client detriment in relation to ...

Metrics supports efforts to raise standards in private credit

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
Metrics Credit Partners has strongly supported ASIC's calls for the private credit industry to deliver enhanced standards and says it looks to play a leading role in the process. ASIC's deep dive into the private credit sector revealed fund managers ...

Majority reject crypto investments in super fund: Swyftx

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... cheaper. The annual stablecoin market is already bigger than the combined volume of Visa and Mastercard." To strengthen regulatory oversight across the sector, ASIC has recently updated its guidance to classify most digital asset products as financial ...

ASIC considers 'cooling off period' for super switching

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
ASIC chair Joe Longo has said introducing "frictions" into the super switching process could help avoid a repeat of the First Guardian and Shield "catastrophe". "No one wants to preside over a problem like this if there are some potential solutions. ...

Private credit funds downplay risks, pose risk to financial system: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... will also seek to address areas of identified poorer practices within wholesale private credit funds by updating our regulatory guidance to make it more clearly applicable to wholesale funds," ASIC said. "We will also continue using our surveillance ...