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Centuria, ResetData advance AI data centre rollout

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2026
Centuria Capital Group and AI infrastructure business ResetData have partnered with CDC Data Centres to develop AI data centre infrastructure. The entities have secured new power capacity and $165 million in GPU financing. Centuria, which holds a 50% ...

ASIC ramps up enforcement action

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2026
ASIC has delivered 150 administrative enforcement outcomes in 2025-26, including the removal or restriction of 87 individuals and businesses from providing financial services as the regulator intensifies action against misconduct across the financial ...

Sequoia caves into InterPrac sale undertaking, ASIC withdraws proceedings

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2026
With ASIC withdrawing legal proceedings against Sequoia Financial Group after it entered an undertaking not to put the Cross Deed of Guarantee at risk tied to the sale of InterPrac Financial Planning, the group remains coy about the deal with Conquest ...

Warburg Pincus private equity strategy launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2026
Warburg Pincus' private equity strategy is now available to Australian wholesale investors. Newly launched Continental Funds Group has brought the Warburg Pincus Access Fund (WP ACE) to the local market, with the help of Channel Investment Management ...

Chiodo in ASIC's crosshairs again

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2026
ASIC is taking further action on Paul Chiodo, this time for spruiking another property investment that raised $1.54 million from five SMSF investors. ASIC is seeking orders from the Federal Court to restrain Royce Capital Investments Royce (Australia) ...

Advice complaints see biggest increase in FY26: AFCA

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2026
Despite only accounting for less than 10% of the total complaints lodged, investment and advice complaints have seen the steepest increase in FY26, data from the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) shows. AFCA received a record 119,949 ...

ASIC sues First Guardian-linked auditors

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2026
ASIC has commenced proceedings against Auditeo Australia and two auditors for their involvement in the First Guardian Master Fund failure. ASIC alleges that unqualified audit reports on First Guardian and its compliance plan for the 2020 to 2024 financial ...

Igneo makes three acquisitions, launches energy platform

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2026
Igneo Infrastructure Partners has launched a dedicated Australian distributed energy platform, Vertis Energy, alongside a series of acquisitions that will provide the business with an initial portfolio of 46 MW of solar assets. The global infrastructure ...

Crole exits Sequoia effective immediately

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2026
Garry Crole is exiting Sequoia Financial Group as chief executive effective immediately as the fallout from the Shield and First Guardian master funds and legal action against subsidiary InterPrac Financial Planning rolls on. Crole said his decision ...

FEATURE | Platforms | The investment supermarket

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2026
Grab a shopping cart and enter the investment supermarket. The shelves are stacked - an Aussie large-cap fund here, an ETF there, a fixed-income fund somewhere near the back, past the alternatives nobody quite understands. There is an estimated $1 trillion ...