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BlackRock loses $8.9bn pension fund mandate

MATT TOLEDO  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... comptroller Brad Lander called for the city's pension system to drop BlackRock, Fidelity and PanAgora Asset Management for failing to meet the system's climate expectations from its managers. "Stewardship failures are now being treated as a material ...

ASIC suspends MW Planning AFSL over missing responsible manager

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... until 8 June 2026. ASIC said MW Planning failed to fulfil its organisational competence and human resources obligations by failing to appoint a new responsible manager following the banning of Robert John Tohill on August 25. Tohill was the compliance ...

ASIC issues $2.2m infringement notices

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
Following a three-month surveillance, ASIC has issued infringement notices to 12 large proprietaries companies for failing to lodge their FY24 audited financial reports on time. The household names facing infringement notices include Aje Hold, Bing ...

AMP to pay $29m to settle class action

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... advisers failed to act in clients' best interests by selling in-house life insurance products at inflated prices, thus failing to provide them with objective financial advice. It said AMP failed to implement systems and processes to ensure its authorised ...

Diversa to 'vigorously defend' ASIC allegations

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
... arguing the managed investment scheme was "fraudulent." ASIC has thrown a slew of allegations at Diversa, starting with failing to conduct adequate due diligence before allowing its members to invest and failing to conduct adequate ongoing monitoring. ...

ASIC sues Diversa for First Guardian failures

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... million of member money was invested. In the Federal Court, ASIC put forth several allegations, starting with Diversa failing to conduct adequate due diligence before allowing its members to invest and failing to conduct adequate ongoing monitoring. ...

ASIC accuses ALAMMC Group directors of contempt

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... respectively, exceeding the court-imposed living expenses by up to $173,026. Additionally, ASIC accuses McWilliams of failing to disclose interests he held in two racehorses, a crypto account, and other bank accounts, and diverting $39,304 in racehorse ...

Two financial services directors fined $15k over reporting failures

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2025
... 12 months' imprisonment and/or a fine not exceeding 60 penalty units (at the relevant time, $12,600), ASIC explained. Failing to lodge financial statements and auditor's reports to ASIC are criminal offences under 989B(2) and s989B(3) of the Corporations ...

Conaghan holds ASIC accountable for Shield, First Guardian mess

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... callers - Conaghan said they will all need to answer for their part. "But the biggest group that needs to answer for their failing, in my view, is ASIC," he warned. "If there was any justice, part of the CSLR burden would be on ASIC and not the advisers ...

Delaying reforms to YFYS test, RG97 costing members: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
... Capital: Australia's Untapped Opportunity, states that an under-allocation to startups and growth companies due to fears of failing the performance test or appearing too expensive in RG97 disclosures will impact retiree balances. The test in its current ...