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More M&A amid AI buildouts, heightened costs: Fidelity International

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2026
M&A activity will continue to ramp up across most sectors as businesses look to capitalise on artificial intelligence (AI) buildouts while sustaining higher operational costs, a new survey found. Fidelity International's annual Analyst Survey 2026 ...

FSC ups expectations on platform trustees' governance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2026
... appropriately respects the professionally advised relationship, while maintaining sound governance guardrails to mitigate the risk of poor member outcomes and preserve the flexibility that is fundamental to platform products." Under the standard, the ...

FEATURE: Private equity | Time to deploy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
Private markets have experienced significant growth in recent years, and investors are showing no signs of slowing down. Global private equity (PE) investment rose from US$1.8 trillion in 2024 to US$2.1 trillion in 2025, despite a decline in deal volume ...

Treasury mulls increased powers for TPB

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
... preparers," the exposure draft said. "The reforms improve protections for taxpayers against tax agent misconduct, including poor and unlawful tax advice, and maintain community confidence in the integrity of the tax system." The proposed five new criminal ...

Australia is 'laissez-faire' on eligibility for semi-liquid investments: Morningstar

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
... facilitating applications or redemptions; in short, LITs are liquid and cannot be gated. "A positive of these structures is that, in poor market conditions, managers are not forced sellers of underlying assets to meet redemptions. Similarly, they are ...

Adviser reprimanded over clients' loss of cover

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2026
... costing them their insurance coverage. The financial adviser was reprimanded this month, after they were found to have provided poor advice in August 2023. The adviser recommended two clients rollover their super balances to a new plan, failing to identify ...

FEATURE | Regulation: Picking up the pieces

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2026
... failures akin to Shield and First Guardian, Treasury believes proposing to reform "ASIC's ability to detect and respond to poor governance and other scheme risks" will make a difference. "Whilst the minister, seemingly is going to prioritise resolving ...

FSC questions SMC's claim on younger members' super switches

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2026
... a default fund on the recommendation of a financial adviser has necessarily been subject to predatory lead generation or poor advice, and the default funds making that claim do not hold the necessary data to substantiate those arguments," FSC said. FSC ...

'We've let our members down': Watson

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2026
... current trajectory of Australia's superannuation industry. "I get the feeling we are letting our members down in terms of poor service," Watson said. "Firstly, we've got the claims handling matters that have arisen with insurance claims not being paid ...

AFCA expands scam-related complaints, publication rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2026
... consider a firm's express refusal to comply, failure to respond or engage, repeated or unjustified delays and patterns of poor compliance behaviour. "Where publication occurs, AFCA publishes only limited information, such as the firm's name, industry ...