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FAAA Award winners announced

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... professional advice to Australian consumers, the FAAA said. The winner of the FAAA Certified Financial Planner Professional of the Year Award was Oxlade Financial's managing director Mark O'Flynn. FAAA chair David Sharpe said that O'Flynn has shown great ...

Talent crunch lifts base salaries for advisers: Kaizen

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... Adviser numbers have fallen from over 28,000 in 2019 to around 15,500 in 2025, and are expected to drop further over the next year. This decline, the report said, has predominantly been driven by mounting regulatory pressures which continue to increase. ...

Cbus launches Age Pension campaign

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... pension eligibility. The research campaign underscored that one in three Australians could be missing out on up to $46,000 per year as a couple, due to late Age Pension applications. It found that reducing late applications by just 1% could deliver up ...

Conaghan holds ASIC accountable for Shield, First Guardian mess

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
The shadow minister for financial services Pat Conaghan has thrust ASIC front and centre of the First Guardian and Shield Master Fund collapses, saying it should take accountability for its delayed action and it is high time for its reformation. Conaghan ...

Advice sector looks to offshore talent to bridge skills gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... administration, customer service officers and paraplanners, which have declined in advertising rates in Australia by about 9% this year, she said, are mainly the ones offshored. "We are also looking at where those roles are going and what we can do offshore ...

Why risk advice is on the verge of collapse: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
The challenges around risk advice have forced many advisers to abandon the sector. With greater complexity and a dwindling number of specialists, experts fear the risk market may cease to exist, the FAAA Congress 2025 has heard. There are currently ...

Scaling practices depends on AI: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
The financial advice industry cannot rely on hiring more advisers to scale practices, rather it needs to prioritise the adoption of new technology that will also help meet unprecedented demand for advice over the next five years, this year's Financial ...

FAAA launches digital client identification tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
... regulation into new industries that are recognised domestically and globally as "high-risk for criminal exploitation." "Next year is going to be huge for AML/CTF. From July, lawyers, accountants, real estate agents, conveyancers and precious metal and ...

ETF Shares reduces management fee

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
... announced it would be transferring its ETFs to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), after launching on Cboe Australia last year. ETF Shares said the move will broaden accessibility across trading platforms and investment channels.

L1 Group aims for $35m in cost reductions post-merger

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
The newly formed L1 Group is targeting a cost reduction of $30-35 million within the next 18 months as it looks to capitalise on synergies created by the merger. Recently appointed L1 Group chief executive and managing director Julian Russell noted ...