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TAL partners to expand access to affordable insurance

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
The life insurer has today launched backd by TAL in partnership with Cover Genius, targeting those with limited access to affordable cover options. backd offers tailored, affordable options for workers not currently eligible for other types of cover ...

ASIC puts 18 finfluencers on notice amid global campaign

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... Securities Commission also hand-delivered warnings alongside law enforcement. Recent Moneysmart research found that 41% of young Australians seek financial information or advice from online sources such as social media, including finfluencers. Since ...

Inheritance dissatisfaction an advice opportunity: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
Most high-net-worth (HNW) inheritors are unhappy with how they have used their inherited capital, presenting an opportunity for financial advisers. As the $3.5 trillion great wealth transfer kicks off, Capital Group surveyed 600 HNW individuals across ...

Up to two million Aussies could face super tax: FSC

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
New modelling from the Financial Services Council (FSC) shows that up to 1.8 million Australians currently in the workforce could be impacted by the proposed superannuation tax under one of the four scenarios. The four scenarios consist of: $3 million ...

Netwealth chair to retire, successor appointed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... Wachtel had a 35-year career in the professional services industry, including as chair for Asia Pacific and Oceania at Ernst & Young (EY), member of the EY Global Governance Council and Global Risk Executive Committee, and later as a non-executive director. ...

Awareness of options could boost advice access: CFS

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
Superannuation is the number one topic Australians want financial advice on, however a significant proportion have little to no idea they can pay for it through their super. Based on a survey of 2250 Australians, Colonial First State's (CFS) Empowered ...

COVID 'masked' issues at core of productivity problem: PC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a "productivity bubble", in which measured labour productivity rose to a record high between January 2020 and March 2022 before returning to pre-pandemic levels in June 2023, the Productivity Commission (PC) has revealed. ...

Super tax debate suffocates action for low-income Australians

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
... fewer are receiving the Low-Income Super Tax Offset (LISTO). Cbus research said the current income threshold is leaving young tradies, apprentices, and women in construction, without support that would give their retirement savings a boost. Cbus said ...

Entireti, Otivo enter strategic alliance for digital advice

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
Entireti and licensed digital advice platform Otivo have partnered up to build a scalable, low-cost solution to "meet the needs of consumers across the advice continuum." The partnership will see Entireti and Otivo combine their IP and resources to ...

Mercer Super recruits whistleblower as risk chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... at National Australia Bank. Interestingly, Gentilin is the author of The Origins of Ethical Failure, which he penned as a young trader at NAB. During his time with the lender, he blew the whistle on a major foreign exchange trading scandal that saw four ...