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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 ...

Australia misses out on global dividends growth

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2025
Despite global dividends achieving record growth in the first half of 2025, boosted by the weaker US dollar, Australia wasn't so prosperous. According to Capital Group's Global Equity Study Dividend Watch, global dividends increased 7.7% year on year ...

Aware Super, Goodman Group launch US logistics platform

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2025
Aware Super will own 49% of the new US logistics platform, with Goodman Group to own the remaining 51% stake. Goodman Group will also provide comprehensive asset and property management services to the platform. The platform consists of three logistics ...

Rest pays $40k over misleading statements

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2025
ASIC issued two infringement notices to the industry fund for misleading statements it made after charging more than 2000 members for insurance cover they were not supposed to have. The regulator said Rest made false or misleading representations in ...

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 ...

Draft laws for insurers' ban on use of genetic test results released

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
Treasury opened consultation on draft legislation to ban life insurers' use of genetic test results in underwriting. The release of the draft legislation follows the government's announcement in September 2024 that it would implement a total ban, following ...

Crypto providers to hold AFSL under proposed laws

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
The government is inviting industry feedback on its proposed legislation to develop a fit-for-purpose digital asset regime to better regulate platforms that hold digital assets. The draft legislation introduces two new financial products within the ...

RBA says ASX has 'considerable work to do'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has released its 2025 Assessment of the ASX Clearing and Settlement (CS) Facilities, slamming the market operator for continued failures. The RBA determined the ASX has "considerable work to do" to meet the central ...

GIM director slapped with travel restraints

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2025
Global Investment Marketing (GIM) director Darren Geddes has been barred from leaving the country for the next six months as ASIC alleges he misappropriated money via a sham bond investment scheme. ASIC did not provide details behind its allegations ...

Federal court slams director for 'fanciful' asset valuation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2025
The Federal Court has disqualified Queensland-based director David Hodgson from managing corporations for five years and permanently restrained him from engaging in financial services without an Australian financial services licence (AFSL). This comes ...