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Another former Venture Egg adviser slapped with four-year ban

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2026
... impersonating other advisers. ASIC has banned Nicholas Hogan from the financial services industry for four years, effective 18 December 2025. During his employment as an authorised representative for Interprac Financial Planning and Rhys Reilly, also ...

T. Rowe Price Australia country head exits

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2026
... distribution ranks. Cassandra Crowe was promoted to head of institutional distribution for Australia and New Zealand in December 2025, while retaining her role as head of consultant relations for Asia Pacific, with her expanded remit effective January ...

Binance Australia to pay $10m over deliberate customer misclassifications

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2026
... its retail clients between July 2022 and April 2023. ASIC commenced legal proceedings against the crypto platform in December 2024 alleging the entity breached multiple obligations, including inadequate oversight and subpar onboarding and classification ...

Household wealth rises 2.5%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2026
Total household wealth rose by 2.5%, or $453.7 billion, in the December quarter 2025, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The main reason for the rise was driven by increased property values the value of residential land and dwellings ...

GESB chief bows out after 10 years

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2026
... According to fund's website, GESB has over 250,000 members and more than $46 billion in funds under management as at 31 December 2025.

Adviser reprimanded over clients' loss of cover

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2026
... consequences to making the change recommended, and failed to comply with the Code of Ethics. The panel was convened on 10 December 2025, and the decision was handed down on March 18. There have been two other FSCP determinations handed down so far this ...

Prime Super closes two options

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2026
... will be its asset consultant as of June 1, replacing PATRIZIA, which has been with the fund for more than a decade. Last December, MFS Investment Management won the contract to manage an active global fixed income strategy on behalf of the $9 billion ...

FEATURE | Regulation: Picking up the pieces

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2026
... the adviser and did my due diligence, Google checking and so forth," Kee says. This took place in November 2023 and in December her super savings transferred over to First Guardian. Kee opted for no insurance. In January, when she contacted Reilly Financial ...

Severe underperformance sees Polen Capital funds wound up

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2026
... that depicted the performance of the Polen Capital Focus Growth Strategy Fund and the fund against the MSCI ACWI since December 2014. By combining the performance of the strategy and the fund, it gave the appearance the fund had outperformed the index ...

Sequoia offloads InterPrac in $50k fire sale

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2026
... mediate with ASIC regarding its separate actions as Sequoia had planned to do." Sequoia is currently suing AFCA for a December 2025 determination relating to one of its representatives and advice provided regarding Shield, but did not announce how that ...