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LRBA ban requires immediate clarity: SMSFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2026
... residential LRBA product at settlement. If lenders withdraw products or approvals lapse, the transitional protection is of little practical use. Burgess also highlighted the industry estimates suggest SMSF buyers represent a meaningful share of off-the-plan ...

Financial services CSLR Levy hits $198m

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2026
... primarily of small and micro businesses, with an average of only 2.5 advisers per practice. These small businesses have little ability to absorb additional significant costs, and the FAAA's member survey in April this year shows many are considering ...

FEATURE | Member engagement | On the ball

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2026
... death benefit claims that exceeded internal targets of four months. ASIC unveiled its follow-up report in June, finding little to no meaningful improvements were made among 45 trustees. Two years on, trustees exhibited varying degrees of urgency in responding ...

Musk's $106bn fundamental-defying IPO lands on Nasdaq

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2026
... rules, he said. Nasdaq has revised its eligibility framework to admit new mega-cap listings to the Nasdaq-100 after as little as 15 trading days, down from the previous requirement of at least three months of trading. "When companies of this scale enter ...

Trustees lack death benefit claims uplift urgency: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2026
... cracked the whip on superannuation funds to improve death benefit claims handling practices, a follow-up review found very little to no improvements have been made. ASIC's review of 45 trustees found varying degrees of urgency in response to its ...

FEATURE | Emerging markets: Twists and turns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2026
... toward international diversification. Virtually in the last 10 years until last year, Taylor says emerging markets had very little to no earnings compared to the previous 20 years. "Covid dampened their earnings ability further. It has been five years ...

Small pocket of failed measures can 'blow the entire business': Anderson

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2026
... also an adviser, selling non-existent products but it was the licensee who was penalised as an outcome. "There's a little bit of a geographic separation, and [the authorised representative] started selling products that were, frankly, not existent... ...

Westpac fined $26m for financial hardship neglect

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2026
... Furthermore, Justice McEvoy rejected Westpac's suggestion that $10 million was an appropriate penalty, saying it "would be little more than derisory in the circumstances and therefore wholly inappropriate." "I am satisfied also that there are several ...

Feature: Private credit | The fine print

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
... investment they thought it was, and the private credit premium they were getting a few years ago has probably dissipated a little. "I think potentially there won't be as much volume of funds under management in the private credit space that is actually ...

Retirees leave 90% of pension unspent: AMP Super

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2026
... liquid, living, lifestyle, later and legacy. The liquid bucket would have short-term needs of the client held in cash plus a little extra for emergencies, the living bucket would include recurring living expenses generated by the Age Pension and lifetime ...