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Treasury launches consultation on CSLR breaching sub-sector levy caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... the terms of reference of the post-implementation review," he said. The consultation runs until August 29. Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive Blake Briggs said in considering whether and how to determine a special levy, the minister "should ...

Return to office mandates to harm firms, careers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... employment market as an opportunity to impose stricter return to office mandates; the unemployment rate in financial services is much higher than the national average, particularly for top earners, the review shows. And now the impacts of what happens ...

ASIC calls out trustees 'passing the buck' on super switching

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
... the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian Master Fund mounts to $1 billion in losses. In his address at the Financial Services Council's (FSC) Shaping advice in a time of change event yesterday, ASIC chair Joe Longo reiterated that the regulators ...

CALI launches review of Life Code

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
... in industry codes and self-regulation, together with his clear commitment to improved consumer outcomes in financial services will be invaluable in strengthening the Life Code for the benefit of customers and the life insurance industry alike," Cupitt ...

HUB24 recruits Vanguard sales manager

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
... portfolios across its platform solutions, it said. Willis brings nearly three decades of experience across financial services, most recently as national sales manager, financial adviser services at Vanguard Australia for over two years. Previously, he ...

Adviser banned for PRP supervision failures

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
... industry for five years. Ian Wailes Potter of Superannuation Advice Australia has been banned from providing any financial services, controlling or performing any function involved in a business that carries on a financial services business for five ...

Mulino sits on Tranche 2 for now, grapples with complexity

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
Minister for financial services Daniel Mulino says releasing the next exposure draft for the "complex" second tranche of Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms is a top priority, but the financial advice sector should not expect it anytime ...

Former adviser charged over clients' near $1m loss

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
... dealing in derivatives without a licence. However, those plans were never fulfilled, and PWMS's Australian financial services licence (AFSL) was cancelled in August 2023, when Cuthbertson was also subsequently permanently banned. The matter has been ...

Sequoia resumes trading after ASX query

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
... investigating InterPrac as part of its ongoing investigations into the Shield and First Guardian funds as Venture Egg Financial Services and its principal Ferras Merhi were authorised representatives of InterPrac. ASIC said certain authorised representatives ...

ASIC issues warning over BTG Technology

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
... unlicensed financial products are unable to access important rights and protections available under Australian financial services laws such as internal dispute resolution processes or client money protections, should something go wrong," ASIC said. The ...