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Prime Value licence suspended over reporting failures

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2026
... breaches of the firm's financial resource requirements and failures to lodge compliance plan audit reports for some of its retail managed investment schemes. While those issues have been rectified, the regulator said the reporting failures warranted ...

ASIC cancels AFSL of Australian Fiduciaries

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2026
... funds were ultimately invested, as well as a lack of regular valuation checks of its schemes. ASIC believes around 600 retail investors had invested approximately $160 million into managed investment schemes run by Australian Fiduciaries since February ...

Treasury expects regulators to do the heavy lifting

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2026
... stability, and safeguarding our financial system and markets." Supporting the agenda, ASIC will prioritise consumer and retail investor protection from serious harms and ensure its enforcement priorities and efforts are calibrated accordingly. It will ...

Australian Ethical adds $1bn to FUM in three months

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2026
... business model continues to allow us to grow, even in periods of market stress." Australian Ethical saw negative flows in retail and wholesale investment of $26 million in the quarter, as client capital activities also resulted in negative FUM movement ...

Igneo opens private infrastructure strategy to advised investors

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2026
... through the firm's Australia New Zealand Diversified Infrastructure Fund. The launch marks the first time Australian advised retail and wholesale investors will be able to access Igneo's private infrastructure capability, which has until now been available ...

Mercer Super chief executive steps down

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2026
Mercer Super chief executive Claire Ross is departing after almost 17 years in senior leadership roles at the retail super fund. As the firm looks for a replacement, Mercer Pacific chief financial officer Court Haas has been appointed as interim chief ...

Special Feature: Rewarding patient capital

PENNY PRYOR  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2026
... industrials, advanced manufacturing, defence, and aerospace are other thematics we are investing behind," Ng said. Educating the retail world Private equity has always been a hard asset class for retail investors to access due to the size of the deals. ...

KKR injects $400m into Ampol

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2026
... chain in Australia that encompasses the Lytton refinery in Queensland, a national network of terminals and pipelines, and a retail footprint of approximately 1700 sites. "Ampol is an established, strong investment-grade business with a long operating ...

ASIC cancels Trive Financial's AFSL as review into CFDs continues

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2026
... industry-wide review. After ASIC identified serious shortcomings in the company's processes, Trive agreed to stop onboarding new retail clients in April 2025. The regulator said improving outcomes for consumers investing in high-risk financial products ...

SS&C to accept digital cash for tokenised investments

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2026
... Australian financial service licence (AFSL). Swyftx was the latest to join the lineup, which allowed the exchange to handle retail derivatives, basic deposit products and NCP facility authorisations. Coinbase and OKX currently hold a similar AFSL. Further ...