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

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2026
... would be forced buyers due to fast-track index rule changes, despite SpaceX not meeting many of their minimum governance practices." S&P Dow Jones Indices, however, has rejected a proposal to fast-track SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI into the S&P 500 ...

Trustees lack death benefit claims uplift urgency: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2026
Two years since ASIC 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 ...

Banks gaining on private credit firms in construction lending

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2026
... with a further 5% planning changes within 12 months. While 43% of respondents remain moderately concerned about current practices and market size of the private credit market, those who are 'not concerned at all' have nearly halved to just 14%. "From ...

US proposes fresh tariffs on Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2026
... goods made with forced labour from entering markets. The Trump administration said Australian government policies and practices had failed to enforce a ban on slavery, which made it difficult for US businesses to compete. "The failure of our most important ...

Centrepoint Alliance acquires two advice firms

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2026
Centrepoint Alliance will acquire Queensland financial advice practices Cairns Wealth and Pinnacle Wealth for $3 million from Astute Financial Management. The two practices, which operate within the Astute network, will add three advisers to Centrepoint ...

APRA slaps additional licence conditions on HTFS Nominees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2026
... notwithstanding any change of ownership to HUB24 Limited, which may implement new investment governance and oversight practices for HTFS." HTFS Nominees is one of EQT's two superannuation trustee entities. The other is Equity Trustees Superannuation ...

More advisers go self-licensed to avoid associative risks

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2026
... knowing what should sit inside the business and knowing what should be supported externally," Euvrard said. "The best practices will not be the ones who do the most internally, they will be the ones who design the most intelligent operating systems." ...

Heightened cyber threats require greater accountability on governance

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2026
... said. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has recently ramped up its supervision on risk management practices for regulated entities, which noted the increasingly sophisticated cyber threats enabled by AI models. Jurd echoed the regulator's ...

APRA funding levy rises to $253m

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2026
... levy will also be used for "intense scrutiny of fund-level expenditure to hold RSE licensees accountable for improving practices, reducing spending that is deemed not in members' best financial interests and promoting the financial interests of their ...

ASIC, APRA target insurers' TPD product sustainability

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2026
... reflects the latest TPD risk profile. On this matter, APRA emphasised the importance of robust reserving and pricing practices, so assumptions keep pace with the latest claims experience and emerging risk trends. ASIC said insurers must continue to handle ...