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Government to scrap advisers' approved qualifications list

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025
The federal government is backtracking on one key financial adviser education requirement by scrapping the list of approved qualifications and proposing to allow any bachelor's degree or higher. Assistant treasurer Stephen Jones this morning announced ...

Trump's tariff implications for Australian investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2025
... would argue to the contrary. "These circumstances are bad for the economy and inflationary because of the tariffs. And of course, if the RBA seriously considers cutting rates, they'll be doing so on the hope that everything's fine," Hogan said. ...

FSCP orders adviser to undertake further education

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2025
... by the Mr D's licensee. The hours are in addition to the adviser's existing continuing professional obligations and the course must be approved by ASIC before it is undertaken. Last December, the FSCP reprimanded two financial advisers who failed to ...

Future Fund reaches value of $237.9bn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2025
... for the Future Fund to become an enduring institution and to continue to invest for the long term." Arndt said over the course of 2024 it had made several new investments including taking a stake in the Eastlink toll road and a national portfolio of ...

AFCA chief operating officer departs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... impactful organisation." Untersteiner leaves AFCA on March 14 and AFCA said a recruitment process will commence in due course.

SMC pushes for DBFO to curb retiree tax bills

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
... SMC found a member of this cohort with $100,000 in an accumulation account is paying up to an extra $4500 in tax over the course of their retirement. A $200,000 account balance would attract $9000 extra in tax. The SMC believes this is largely the result ...

Investors should stay the course in 2025: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
Despite some critical short-term influences markets are currently withstanding, Morningstar portfolio manager Bianca Rose is advising investors to tread into the new year carefully without committing their investments solely to those events. Rose told ...

What you read in 2024

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
Mergers, corporate fund closures and executive moves were the major motifs for Financial Standard readers this year. Unsurprisingly, further consolidation in the superannuation sector was a major driver of audience interest this year with a number of ...

Australia home to 43 billionaires: UBS

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
... to 43 of the richest people in the world, according to a new report from UBS. Australia gained two billionaires over the course of 2024 - the majority of which (77%) were self-made. The 10 th edition of the Billionaire Ambitions Report found the upward ...

Three universities ditch financial planning courses

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
Three major universities have pulled the plug on their financial planning courses due to the lack of student interest in a major blow for the profession as it struggles to attract new entrants. The University of Wollongong, Queensland University of ...