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Viridian promotes to investment team, launches Infinity

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2026
... market has evolved significantly over the past decade. Advisers are supporting increasingly diverse client needs, from retail investors through to high-net-worth families and not-for-profits, requiring highly personalised investment solutions," Shahien ...

Aware Super acquires $226m real estate investment

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2026
... established by Aware Super said the acquisition aligns with its strategy of investing in institutional-quality office, retail and industrial assets capable of generating resilient long-term returns. Head of investment and capital transactions Pete Carstairs ...

Fight between SMC and FSC on super rages on

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2026
... products such as AustralianSuper, Australian Retirement Trust (ART), HESTA and UniSuper. On the other hand, FSC represents the retail super funds including AMP, Mercer, Colonial First State and platform providers such as BT Financial and HUB24. SMC has ...

New 'high-risk' derivatives on the rise

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2026
... scope of the market regulator, spreading concerns that the "speculative" product may be unlawfully distributed towards retail investors. According to the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC), perps are leveraged derivatives with no fixed ...

Count rebrands Oracle to Count Wealth

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2026
Count Financial has rebranded Oracle Group as a new retail brand Count Wealth, after announcing the acquisition earlier in the year. The financial advisory firm also expects further cost synergies over the estimate provided earlier. Oracle Group is ...

FSCP bans adviser over client advice failures

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2026
... has cancelled the registration of financial adviser Peter Morrison-Dowd and banned him from providing personal advice to retail clients until at least September 2027 after finding multiple breaches of his legal and ethical obligations. The panel's order ...

Prime Value licence suspended over reporting failures

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2026
... breaches of the firm's financial resource requirements and failures to lodge compliance plan audit reports for some of its retail managed investment schemes. While those issues have been rectified, the regulator said the reporting failures warranted ...

ASIC cancels AFSL of Australian Fiduciaries

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2026
... funds were ultimately invested, as well as a lack of regular valuation checks of its schemes. ASIC believes around 600 retail investors had invested approximately $160 million into managed investment schemes run by Australian Fiduciaries since February ...

Treasury expects regulators to do the heavy lifting

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2026
... stability, and safeguarding our financial system and markets." Supporting the agenda, ASIC will prioritise consumer and retail investor protection from serious harms and ensure its enforcement priorities and efforts are calibrated accordingly. It will ...

Australian Ethical adds $1bn to FUM in three months

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2026
... business model continues to allow us to grow, even in periods of market stress." Australian Ethical saw negative flows in retail and wholesale investment of $26 million in the quarter, as client capital activities also resulted in negative FUM movement ...
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