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Rainmaker's John Dyall to retire

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
Rainmaker Information's long-serving head of investment research John Dyall will retire at year-end, closing out a career that has left a deep imprint on the Australian investment and advice sectors. Dyall joined Rainmaker in 2015, bringing more ...

Australian Ethical Super handed extra licence conditions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
The prudential regulator has flagged concerns over the fund's investment management arrangements with its parent company and whether the fees involved are in members' best financial interests. APRA reviewed Australian Ethical Superannuation's related-party ...

Clime shutters two funds, offloads retail book

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2025
... under an ASIC investigation, and will offload its retail client book for $1.65 million to an undisclosed financial advice practice. At the annual general meeting last week, Clime chair John Abernethy announced the closure of the Clime Australian Income ...

Advisers want to boost client book by 36%: CFS

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025
... Advisers on average have increased the number of clients served from 110 last year to currently 112, the 2025 Advice Practice Profitability Report shows, after canvassing 515 advisers and support staff. Ideally, though, they want to serve 152 clients. ...

FAAA Award winners announced

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... practices around the client journey. Boutique Advisers' managing director Gary Hasler accepted the FAAA Professional Practice of the Year Award. The firm has been operating since 1991 and joined the FAAA Professional Practice Program in 2012. The judges ...

Talent crunch lifts base salaries for advisers: Kaizen

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... participation," the report said. Thompson noted that it has been particularly challenging for private wealth managers and public practice advice firms to hire because of non-compete clauses and client ownership issues. "In contrast, super funds have ...

Advice sector looks to offshore talent to bridge skills gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... also pointed out that some advice practices are investing in offshore talent, with team members successfully moving into practice management roles of the advice firm in Australia. "We've got team members who are on their investment committee. So ...

Scaling practices depends on AI: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
... day one of the annual event showed only 30% of more than 220 advisers are 'very confident' about scaling their practice without hiring more qualified advisers. Forty-two percent of advisers are 'somewhat confident' and 27% are 'not ...

HUB24 takes stake in Finura Digital

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
... productivity in areas like portfolio management and reporting, there are still many inefficient processes within an advice practice, which have not been addressed due to the lack of investment in high quality accessible data, industrial scale technology ...

SMC makes recommendations to safeguard super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2025
Super Members Council (SMC) has called for stronger protections to prevent consumer harm from high-risk super switching. The call comes as the corporate regulator continues to launch legal action against those involved in the collapses of Shield and ...