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TPB consults on AI usage rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2026
The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) has proposed new artificial intelligence (AI) usage rules for tax practitioners while providing tax agent services. The TPB has released draft guidance and is seeking feedback until April 21. Some of the core obligations ...

Brighter Super, QIC back autonomous robot company

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2026
... solving that problem with a platform that is not only safer and more efficient but also unlocks a new level of asset intelligence and predictive capabilities. This is the direction the industry is moving and FMT is well ahead of the curve, detecting ...

AI layoffs a correction from overhiring: Morningstar

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2026
... WiseTech cut 2000 of its developer and customer service jobs. All companies attributed the jobs cuts to artificial intelligence (AI) in one way or another. However, Morningstar market strategist Lochlan Halloway said before reading these job cuts as ...

BNP Paribas AM to turbocharge $2.6tn AUM by 2030

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2026
... insurance and institutional partnerships, and retail and wealth management. The fund manager also flagged its artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions, saying it will be deployed across the entire investment and servicing value chain of the front, middle ...

Super moves: Future Fund, ART, First Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
... a newly created role at Australian Retirement Trust, after four years at NZ Super. She joins as head of portfolio intelligence, partnering across the organisation to strengthen investment decision-making and drive better outcomes for the fund. Kerner ...

Entireti taps AI to centralise advice data

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
... Entireti is partnering with global financial technology firm Communify to build a digital platform which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to centralise data for its advisers and clients. Entireti's ERA platform will gather, analyse and organise data ...

Government looks to better define roles of regulators

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
... better quality data, but also a red tape reduction in cost," he said. Mulino said the aim is to improve the quality of intelligence being collected by regulators while also lowering the burden on the financial services sector. During his speech, Mulino ...

CALI pushes for advice reforms as Australians turn to AI

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2026
More Australians are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) for insurance advice, underscoring the need for the government to deliver on its advice reforms, the Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) said. Research by CALI found three in five Australians ...

Global X to tap humanoid robotics boom

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2026
... benefit as demand for copper, lithium, aluminium, nickel and cobalt will rise. Barclays said physical artificial intelligence is emerging as the next major industrial theme, making investment in actuator makers, precision-component suppliers and automation ...

Constant slams super funds over complaints handling

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2026
... being an enforceable requirement to regularly analyse complaint data, complaints are, of course, a free source of intelligence. "You don't need an expensive consultant to tell you you've got a problem. Your customers are telling you, loud and clear through ...