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Openmarkets to merge, list on Nasdaq

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2026
Trading and wealth management technology provider Openmarkets has entered a plan to merge with Lake Superior Acquisition Corp - a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Upon completion of the merger, the newly combined entity will ...

Rodney Forrest handed prison sentence for $3m insider trading

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2026
Former investment manager Rodney Forrest has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment for insider trading and procuring others to trade in more than $3 million of Platinum Asset Management shares. In August 2024, Forrest secretly accessed the computer ...

Apostle executive exits

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
... Carbon Credit Fund, will start at Westpac next week. Donovan will head up a new group within the lender - power and carbon trading - reporting to former Commonwealth Bank executive Alex Toone, who runs commodities at Westpac. Before Apostle, Donovan ...

Netwealth's APRA-mandated governance overhaul underway

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
... and stockbrokers to execute and report trades for individual HIN-holding clients through its platform or their existing trading infrastructure. Netwealth chief executive Matt Heine said the wealth platform is pleased to add the HIN feature for its users ...

AOFM names lead managers for 2037 Treasury Bond

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2026
... provided to the government during a syndicated bond issuance, and a $50 million penalty for incorrectly reporting bond trading data to the AOFM over a two-year period. The Federal Court made the order in December 2025. At the time, AOFM chief executive ...

Investment managers ramp up AI use in front offices

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026
... should be locally tuned to convert technology into durable commercial advantage," Cloud said. Portfolio management and trading innovation emerged as the top focus area with North America leading this shift and significantly outpacing other regions. Firms ...

ASIC returns $40m of CFD losses

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026
... funding costs but could not profit from their opposing CFD positions. "Each year, thousands of Australians lose money trading CFDs and through our review we have helped put $40 million back in the pockets of more than 38,000 investors," ASIC commissioner ...

BlackRock, State Street see assets climb

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2026
... US$3.7 billion in the fourth quarter while fee revenue increased 8%, reflecting higher servicing fees, management fees, FX trading services revenues, and securities finance revenues. Management fees rose by 15% to US$662 million. "As we enter 2026, we ...

Morningstar bulks up managed portfolios team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026
... Management, where he was an investment analyst for two years. Abraham earlier worked at Wentworth Securities as head of trading and portfolio management, at Lonsec as an investment adviser and at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney as a financial adviser. Morningstar ...

GDG awards Hackett big pay day

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026
... he worked in senior roles at Credit Suisse for 20 years, including as director of high yield bond and convertible bond trading.