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AI moves into the advice process
|Financial advisers could soon spend less time piecing together clients' histories and more time acting on them, as Marloo launches an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that searches entire client books alongside new research showing consumers are increasingly willing to let AI help make financial decisions.
Stay up to date with regulatory compliance at the FAAA Congress
|The upcoming Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) Congress will explore ASIC's key focus for the remainder of the year, while shedding some light on the ongoing developments from the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) and the Compensation Scheme as Last Resort (CSLR).
Sodor Capital plots New Zealand expansion with new hire
|Australian fund distributor Sodor Capital has appointed an executive to lead its New Zealand expansion, while opening a new office in Singapore.
4D Infrastructure moves to Perennial
4D Infrastructure will not be joining the other Bennelong Funds Management affiliates that have been sold off to Antipodes Partners and will instead move to Perennial Partners.
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When geopolitics becomes a portfolio risk
Geopolitics is back - again - and Australian investors can no longer treat it as distant background noise.
Does association membership still matter?
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Digital assets and where they stand in 2026
So far in 2026 digital assets have captured the headlines largely for the wrong reasons, but that doesn't tell the full story.
Rethinking default design in a changing market environment
The evolution underway in the US DC system highlights the value of periodically reassessing default design assumptions.
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As a highly respected journalist, Rachel Alembakis helped push sustainable investing on the agenda long before it was mainstream. Now, she's stepped into the arena to shape the industry from within. Karren Vergara writes.
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Thank you Gwen Fletcher
I am just one of thousands who's financial planning career was enhanced by your influence. You were the first financial planner I met in 1990 on my first outing as a Fund Manager BDM. I asked you for feedback and you kindly said leave the brochures at your office. You were my referee to gain my dream job in 1994 as head of private banking at Macquarie and you were my teacher as I gained my financial planning qualifications. But you were the mother of financial planning, you guided the early days of our profession and inspired so many of us to want to improve it
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