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Equity Story to raise $3.5m to enter property sector

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
Equity Story Group plans to raise up to $3.54 million through an entitlement offer to support the expansion of its funds management business, with a particular focus on entering the property sector. The stock market trading advice group will issue approximately ...

Feature: Compliance | Passing the buck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... it's worth asking the question of whether the advice firms that relied on those ratings, and put the products on their product lists, should be held accountable for trusting that rating? "What is the contractual relationship between those parties ...

Can IPOs ever recover? Experts aren't sure

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
Despite ASIC and the ASX having displayed a "good regulatory mindset" in revitalising the listed environment, opportunities from the private markets continue to drag initial public offerings' (IPOs) down. In a panel at the Citi Investment Conference ...

BlackRock looks to add Bitcoin ETF to local suite

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... Clearway Capital Solutions managing director and principal Dennis Mothoneos said that any launch of a digital asset-related product is always welcome - and the fact it'll be coming from a big name like BlackRock certainly doesn't hurt. "A Bitcoin ...

New 100% tariffs on China: Another TACO moment?

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
As the US threatens more outlandish tariffs on China, investment experts foresee more market volatility in the short term with neither side backing down. But will US President Donald Trump once again "chicken out"? Trump roiled investor confidence last ...

ASIC targets funds over 'disappointing' retiree communications

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
... retirement communications. ASIC said trustees must focus on informing members about retirement, rather than prioritising product promotion and member retention, and develop retirement communications that are better tailored to member needs. The review ...

AZ NGA acquires majority stake in Geographe Financial Group

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
Advice platform AZ Next Generation Advisory (AZ NGA) has increased its stake in financial advice firm Geographe Financial Group (Geographe). Geographe has provided advice on superannuation, investments and insurance since 1976 for clients in Western ...

Morningstar calls out platform TDPs' use of rebates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025
... negative 0.4% and negative 0.5% per year. Moreover, 12 of these returned negative 0.49% - just 0.01% inside pass territory. A product fails if its performance, typically measured over 10 years, falls below -0.5% p.a. Products that fail two years in a ...

ASIC slams licensees' lax offshoring governance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2025
... arrangements. The services typically outsourced to these providers are financial planning, including client data entry and product research, paraplanning, insurance application and document support, and client communication, such as client situation ...

ETF market hits $300bn milestone early

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2025
... cost-effective and diversified exposure across equities, bonds, commodities and alternative assets. "The ASX investment product market is not only expanding but accelerating," Campion said. "What previously took years to achieve is now being realised ...