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Australia progresses climate transition disclosures, planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
Australia is showing progress with disclosing and adopting its clean energy transition initiatives as investors' demand for credible emissions reduction strategies grows, a study from MSCI shows. Among listed Australian companies analysed in the APAC ...

‍Padua recruits tech professional

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
Padua Solutions has appointed Dimitri Diamantes to the newly created role of senior technical services manager, overseeing the advice fintech's software, services, research and data divisions. Diamantes has almost two decades of experience in financial ...

Wealth groups tap operations leads

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
Viola Private Wealth and Aura Group have appointed new operating leads, while MA Asset Management's COO has headed out the door. Aura Group has named Nathan Harris as its new chief operating officer as the firm continues to expand in the private ...

Equity Trustees rapped over the knuckles by ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
Equity Trustees was fined nearly $60,000 by the regulator for making misleading statements about the holdings of a sustainable bond fund. Equity Trustees agreed to pay three infringement notices totalling $56,340 over allegations it made misleading ...

Royal London Asset Management plants flag in Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
Royal London Asset Management has appointed a Sydney-based regional sales head to expand the firm's footprint in Australia. The UK active investment manager named Kevin Haran to assume the newly created role. Haran will be responsible for establishing ...

ASIC takes action on Australian Fiduciaries

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
ASIC is investigating Queensland financial services firm Australian Fiduciaries, which has $160 million of investor money, and seeks asset preservation orders and the appointment of receivers. ASIC believes that about 600 retail investors have invested ...

ASIC cancels Financial Services Group Australia's AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of Financial Services Group Australia (FSGA), which has links to the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian Master Fund. FSGA's responsible manager (RM) Graham Holmes has also been permanently banned from working in the ...

ASIC launches fresh inquiry into ASX

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
ASIC has launched another inquiry into the ASX, this time focusing on its overall governance, capability, risk management frameworks and practices. The inquiry will be led by a panel that will make recommendations to address any identified shortcomings ...

ASIC reads the riot act to the super industry: Longo

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... market capitalisation, as an impressive achievement. But for all its size and influence, Longo reinforced at the AmCham Regulator Luncheon Series that the regulator has exposed shortcomings and blind spots with regards to super fund's governance and ...

Super tax requires a 'holistic' review: ASA

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
The Australian Shareholders' Association (ASA) is urging the federal government to reconsider the proposed terms on the Division 296 superannuation tax. The super tax has received mixed opinions since its announcement, but the Labor government has insisted ...