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Totality Wealth chief executive exits, replacement named

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
... strategy focused on scaling client capability through end-to-end market infrastructure, including execution, custody and post-trade services, designed to optimise institutional operations. At the same time, Totality will continue to invest in its retail ...

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
... 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 ...

Gold soars over Trump's Greenland rhetoric

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
... significant debt overhang and raise the risk of disorderly moves in global risk assets, reminiscent of the volatile carry-trade unwinds seen in prior episodes." Lin believes gold may have built a short-term floor of US$4500 per ounce ($6700) given the ...

Netwealth's APRA-mandated governance overhaul underway

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
Netwealth said its APRA-mandated investment governance overhaul is underway and is being led at the executive level. This was part of its agreement with ASIC in December under which it said it will repay $101 million to super members who accessed the ...

Super funds, instos shun ETFs, retail dominance prevails

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
... companies operating in Australia are big users of fixed income ETFs, especially offshore ones, simply because it's easier to trade a bond ETF than it is to trade cash bonds directly," he added. One chief financial officer at a major global insurer ...

Sovereign funds, instos raise $217m for Qld space tech developer

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2026
A group of institutional investors, including various super funds, and the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC), Australia's sovereign investor in manufacturing capability, have formed a conglomerate to raise more than $217 million for ...

The revolving door of opportunities for advisers in 2026

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2026
... provide a positive backdrop for equities, we remain mindful of risks such as geopolitical tensions and shifts in global trade dynamics." Fradley Advice specialist financial adviser Nathan Fradley also agreed that "the news cycle is already crazy, and ...

Study reveals who bares brunt of US tariffs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026
... US$200 billion in 2025; foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the tariff burden, 96% passed through to US buyers; and trade volumes collapsed, but export prices did not fall. The study also examined the unexpected tariff hikes imposed on Brazil ...

IMF flags 'drawn out' inflation battle in Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026
... that maintains data dependence is warranted. In economies experiencing adverse supply shocks, policymakers face complex trade-offs in balancing the risk of growth slowdown against the risk of persistent inflation. "In such cases, further monetary easing ...