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Global X launches global SMID ETF

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2026
Global X ETF has expanded its international equity range with the launch of the Global X MSCI International Small and Mid-Cap ETF (ASX: ISMD), offering Australian investors low-cost exposure to small- and mid-cap companies across developed markets outside ...

Crole exits Sequoia effective immediately

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2026
... subsidiaries. Crole exits amidst corporate regulator ASIC's action against InterPrac, alleging its advisers failed to act in clients' best interests. Together, InterPrac representatives Venture Egg and Rhys Reilly Pty Ltd advised about 6843 clients ...

Praemium reaches $78bn in FUA with HNW focus

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2026
The company said its effort targeting the high-net-worth segment has worked out to its favour, as performances across its platform and non-custodial portfolio administration business have pushed its total funds under administration (FUA) to $77.9 billion ...

FEATURE | Platforms | The investment supermarket

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2026
... Federal Court against Equity Trustees and Diversa Trustees, both trustees-for-hire, externally licensed companies appointed to act as trustee for a fund rather than the trustee sitting inside the same business that runs the platform. ASIC alleges both ...

KPMG finds new chief executive

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2026
The embattled consulting firm has named a new chief executive, choosing to promote from within after former chief executive Andrew Yates stepped down in June in the wake of the whistleblower scandal. KPMG named chief financial officer John Sams as its ...

Corporate hybrid issuance surges: Report

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2026
Corporate hybrids are re-emerging as a significant segment of the Australian dollar credit market, with QIC saying the asset class is benefiting from regulatory reforms, growing investor demand and changing rating treatment. In a new research paper ...

ASX to rejig corporate governance framework

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2026
The ASX is looking to modernise eight core corporate governance principles, which include rejigging executive remuneration and board composition, to make them fit-for-purpose in the current environment in which ASX-listed entities operate in. The bourse ...

ASIC boasts $830m record civil penalties

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2026
ASIC has scored a whopping $830 million in civil penalty orders in the last financial year alone, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request revealed. The FOI obtained by Lambros Photios, the founder of technology services and artificial intelligence (AI) ...

New 'high-risk' derivatives on the rise

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2026
An innovative financial product, known as perpetual futures contract (perps), are currently under the scope of the market regulator, spreading concerns that the "speculative" product may be unlawfully distributed towards retail investors. According ...

FSCP bans adviser over client advice failures

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2026
... which considers adviser conduct matters referred by ASIC has the power to impose registration sanctions under the Corporations Act. Its decision has been published on ASIC's FSCP Outcomes Register.
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