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Cost-of-living, unaffordable advice fuels financial stress: Surveys

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... incomes to grow and reduce extremely high levels of financial stress amongst people with the least," she said. "The priority now should be to grow jobs and the incomes of people struggling after a decade of stagnation in living standards. Low unemployment ...

Why emotions, cash derail good investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
... promulgating the importance of active investing more than ever. "This is because many of the benchmarks, are highly concentrated now, and therefore, I believe, vulnerable to what some of the key risks that are out there today," she said. So, how do investors ...

Centrepoint Alliance locks in hundreds of Brighter Super advice clients

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
... Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Brighter Super, last month. Its advice business subsidiary, Financial Advice Matters, is now responsible for servicing most of these members. Brighter Super, which has over 280,000 members, selected Financial Advice ...

ASIC accuses Kalkine of providing unlicensed advice

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
... its obligations, leading ASIC to take the significant step of imposing new licence conditions," Court said. "Kalkine will now undergo an external review to ensure it acts lawfully and within the scope of its licence." Kalkine has agreed to the new licence ...

Super moves: Future Fund, WTW

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... HESTA, where he focused on portfolio construction and risk. "With the recent addition of Edwina and Ashish, our Sydney office now accommodates more than 40 team members and encompasses all five of our primary business units," the Future Fund said. Interestingly ...

Mason Stevens welcomes chief strategy officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
Morgan Stanley's former family office head is now leading strategy for Mason Stevens, as it looks to push into the ultra-high-net-worth space. Peter Mermelas has been appointed chief strategy officer at Mason Stevens. He's tasked with identifying and ...

Age-based super strategies could add thousands to retirement savings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... Jason Edgar said many Australians are stuck in one-size-fits-all investments that fail to meet their individual needs. "We now have the track record to prove that personalising super through age-based investing and individualised strategies improves ...

DeepSeek, Alibaba: Silver linings for emerging markets

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... the last couple of years, though, Alibaba has rebuilt itself, focusing on its cloud business, which is partly why it's now doing so well," Whiting said. What it's also done well in the last 18 months is better allocate capital. "Eight months ...

Future Fund bags a piece of Transgrid

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... Waveconn," he said. OMERS executive vice president and global infrastructure head Michael Hill said Australia, in which the fund is now in its second decade of investment having deployed over $4 billion, is a "core part of our investment strategy." "... ...

MLC Expand reduces fees

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... fostering simplicity for advisers. "The combination of reduced fees and some of the most competitive fee caps in the market now makes it even more compelling for advisers to recommend MLC Expand to help improve their clients' outcomes," McCarthy said. ...