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APRA flexes fresh powers, zeros in on trustees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2026
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released a package of proposals to strengthen trustee investment governance and better protect members' retirement savings. APRA said the reforms are the next phase of its multi-year focus on ...

Product Showcase: Making group insurance count

THE FINANCIAL STANDARD TEAM  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2026
When integrated advice drives practice growth Many financial advisers aspire to provide genuinely integrated advice, but finding ways to support more clients without increasing operational demands remains a challenge. As they re-evaluate where they ...

Why HNW investors are choosing shopping centres

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2026
As demand for consistent cash flows continues to rise for wealthy investors, commercial real estate assets, like shopping centres, continue to draw significant interest to fulfil the need, MA Financial said. MA Financial co-head of core real estate ...

ASX to launch overnight repo funding rate

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2026
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is bringing to life a new interest rate benchmark next week to accommodate the strong growth in the domestic repo market, alongside the continuous reliance on existing rates for funding, lending, derivatives ...

Super turns a safety-net retirement into a comfortable one: ASFA

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2026
A comfortable retirement for a couple who own their own home now costs $1513 a week, according to the latest Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Retirement Standard, which found that super remains key to comfortable retirement. For ...

Former adviser charged further on dishonest conduct

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2026
Former financial adviser and the sole director of Professional Wealth Management, Donald Cuthbertson, has been slapped with 24 offences in the Federal Court of Australia. An indictment filed on August 28 showed Cuthbertson being charged with making ...

'Easy peasy, done': Senate rips Equity Trustees' checklist governance

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2026
A Senate committee tore into Equity Trustees' governance at a hearing today, with one senator calling its approach to onboarding Shield and First Guardian a "checklist model", a characterisation the trustee rejected. The committee revealed Equity ...

Is demand for active ETPs genuine beyond outlier conversions?

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2026
As the active exchange-traded product (ETP) market continues to grow, new Rainmaker Information research asks whether demand has genuinely improved or if it is underpinned by conversions from three investment managers delivering "three exceptional months ...

AIA Australia rolls out TPD CORE

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2026
AIA Australia has launched TPD CORE, a new retail product that charges lower premiums and provides clearer claim assessment criteria for total and permanent disability (TPD). Some of TPD CORE's key features include a five-year rate guarantee, a ...

Insurer sanctioned for over 10k breaches

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2026
The Life Insurance Code Compliance Committee (Life CCC) has sanctioned a life insurer after it reported more than 10,000 breaches of the Life Insurance Code of Practice (Life Code) in relation to failure to provide timely, completed annual notices. ...
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