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Aware Super, TelstraSuper advance merger plans

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2025
Aware Super and TelstraSuper have moved to the next stage of their merger plans, signing a binding Heads of Agreement to create an entity with nearly $235 billion in assets. Providing an update to its members, TelstraSuper chief executive Chris Davies ...

Eildon recommends Samuel Terry takeover

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2025
Eildon Capital Group (EDC) is urging shareholders to accept Samuel Terry Asset Management's off-market takeover bid. Eildon's independent board committee told shareholders to accept Samuel Terry's offer, which recently went up from $0.80 per security ...

ASIC sues Fiducian for ESG failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
ASIC has launched proceedings in the Supreme Court of NSW against Fiducian Investment Management, alleging it breached its duties as a responsible entity and engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct about its environmental, social and governance ...

APRA warns of super fund sustainability challenges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
Almost half of all super funds have seen a decline in member accounts over the last year, despite the number of member accounts across the industry having increased. APRA assessed super funds' performance against a variety of metrics over one, three ...

RBA delivers 'hawkish hold'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2025
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept interest rates on hold at 3.6% at the meeting yesterday - a move widely predicted by economists. However, some were surprised by the post-meeting statement released by the central bank. "Recent data, while partial ...

3500 advisers at risk as deadline looms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2025
ASIC is urgently calling on financial advisers to review the accuracy of their Financial Adviser Register profile if they intend to continue providing advice into 2026 and beyond. The regulator said, based on current information, some 3459 advisers ...

Super funds must improve reporting, audits: ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2025
Registrable superannuation entities (RSEs) must do more to ensure asset valuations in financial reports are reliable and improve disclosure of sponsorship and advertising expenses. Those are two key outcomes of an ASIC review into the financial reporting ...

ASIC permanently bans jailed adviser

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
ASIC has permanently banned a former financial adviser after he was convicted for defrauding family and friends out of $4.5 million. Anthony Joseph Del Vecchio served as a financial adviser for Freedom Finance Australia from November 2016 to October ...

Feature: Digital advice | Sleeping giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
About three years ago, robo-advisers, one by one, began dropping like flies. The likes of Six Park, Upstreet and Advice Intelligence either folded or were acquired. Even Ellerston Capital's ethically based robo-adviser, which launched in early 2023 ...

AFCA temporarily reinstates UGC to address complaints

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) has reinstated United Global Capital's (UGC) membership until 31 March 2026, to ensure consumers can lodge complaints regarding Shield and First Guardian Master Fund. UGC was expelled from AFCA membership ...