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FEATURE | Governance | Stumping up

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2026
"No one can predict a fraud in advance. We're not clairvoyants." The chair of Diversa Trustees, Vincent Plant, testified before last month's parliamentary committee inquiry into the collapse of the Shield and First Guardian master funds. The ...

ASIC hits Fidante private credit fund with interim stop order

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2026
The $800 million Ares Global Credit Income Fund, which is issued by Fidante Partners, has been hit with an interim stop order from the corporate regulator for target market determination (TMD) deficiencies. ASIC has prevented Fidante Partners, the responsible ...

IFM looks offshore for renewable lending opportunities

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2026
Australia is losing out to the global market and increasingly to Asia when it comes to renewables lending from one of the country's biggest fund managers, with IFM Investors executive director and co-head of APAC diversified credit Hiran Wanigasekera ...

ASIC seeks 10-year extension of CFD protections

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2026
ASIC is proposing to extend its product intervention order governing contracts for difference (CFDs) until 2037, while tightening protections to address risks posed by increasingly varied ways of settling the complex, leveraged products. The regulator ...

Two in three Aussies support super top-up for carers

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2026
Two in three Australians support a government-funded superannuation top-up for people who take time out of paid work to care for children or other family members, according to new research. Conducted by YouGov for Australian Retirement Trust (ART) with ...

Former Income AM director launches fixed income advisory

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2026
A former Income Asset Management executive director has launched Ancora Fixed Income Advisory (AFIA) for high-net-worth (HNW) clients targeting the defensive asset class. After a two-year stint at Income Asset Management, and close to 30 years' experience ...

Life CCC spots 10.6k breaches in FY26

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2026
The Life Code Compliance Committee (Life CCC) has published its FY26 annual report, which saw over 10,600 breaches by insurers with close to 30,000 customers affected. Of the 10,697 breaches in FY26, a single insurer accounted for 10,105, who has been ...

ASIC issues more stop orders amid private credit crackdown

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2026
ASIC has made an interim stop order on the product disclosure statement (PDS) issued by Australian Secure Capital Fund (ASCF) offering units in three registered managed investment schemes. The interim stop order stops ASCF from offering, issuing, selling ...

Macquarie completes audit review

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2026
The Macquarie Group and Macquarie Bank boards have completed a review of Macquarie's 2025 audit tender process, in the wake of the KPMG whistleblower scandal. The review, led by board governance and compliance committee chair Rebecca McGrath, considered ...

AFCA raises concerns over advice sector in systemic issues report

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2026
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) has released its bi-annual Systemic Issues Insights Report, which outlines systemic issues identified and markers of excellence observed for the second half of the 2025-2026 financial year. AFCA's ...