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Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
Financial advisers have heard how an active, factor-based approach can help eliminate the three-body problem in financial advice. In 1867, Sir Isaac Newton identified the three-body problem. Relating to the laws of gravity, he found that it's impossible ...

ASIC calls out trustees 'passing the buck' on super switching

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
... because you have chosen to put them on your shelves." Advice licensees, meanwhile, and their input into the super-switching problem that has reached "industrial scale" are not off the hook. The regulator is also zeroing in AFSLs. "There's a reason ...

Special feature: Shaping private markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... really have full transparency into what they're buying?" At the heart of the regulatory concern lies a fundamental problem: unlike ASX-listed shares, which reprice by the second, private assets may only be revalued quarterly, semi-annually, or even ...

AI, corporate tax, skilled workers key to productivity: PC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... how to boost Australia's productivity, lays out several recommendations on how the nation can fix its productivity problem. This is in light of Australia's productivity performance having stalled in more recent years. Labour productivity growth ...

FAAA fights to reignite Dixon inquiry

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
... government to contribute to it or for other sectors that are covered by the ASIC funding levy to contribute. That's a problem that the government is going to need to solve."

Financial services workers earn 12% pay rise

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2025
Financial services employees saw their pay packets rise 12% in the last 12 months, according to Hays' annual Salary Guide, outpacing salary growth for lawyers and technology professionals. After canvassing more than 12,000 employees from Australia ...

McKell Institute calls for CGT 'circuit breaker'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2025
... just isn't going to hit its objective of 1.2 million additional homes by 2030 if we retain existing settings." "A key problem with our existing tax settings on property is they orient too much investment toward established dwellings, at the cost ...

Adviser exodus puts retirement savings at risk: CPA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... tape is a key contributor to financial advisers quitting the profession and the government must urgently act to solve the problem. "More than 2.5 million Australians will retire in the next decade - and many will be shocked to discover there are fewer ...

CSLR releases revised levy estimate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2025
... deterioration in the long-term outlook for the CSLR, it is increasingly critical that government steps in to fix this problem," Abood said. "We are keen to see the release of the Treasury report into the CSLR and the government's response. The problems ...

Productivity woes endure in March quarter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... figures from the Productivity Commission. Productivity Commission deputy chair Alex Robson said Australia's productivity problem is no flash in the pan, calling it a "long-term, structural challenge". He said the problem demands dedicated attention from ...