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Feature: Retirement | The right mix

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... to do anything, so the success of the system is also its biggest challenge. ART provides access to external financial advisers, offers retirement calculators and delivers education seminars which often go into the workplace. There is a call centre to ...

Most influential advisers of 2025 revealed

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2025
The annual Financial Standard Power50 has been revealed. Now in its 12 th year, the FS Power50 celebrates financial advisers promoting the value of the financial advice and the profession while providing outstanding service to their clients and wider ...

Number of AFSLs plateaus: Rainmaker

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2025
At end September 2025 there were 15,446 ASIC-registered financial advisers in Australia, according to the Rainmaker Financial Adviser report. Over the year to September, there was a decrease of 71 advisers, with 10 leaving the industry in the September ...

Actuaries Institute makes proposal to close advice gap

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... critical for increasing access to affordable HGA, with superannuation funds playing a pivotal role alongside financial advisers, other financial institutions and digital solutions." Additionally, it said a broader framework is needed than what currently ...

Challenger, Iress partner for retirement income solution

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... improve accessibility of retirement income products in Australia. Iress said the technology solution will enable financial advisers to better serve their clients as they approach retirement. The solution will be built on Iress' existing Xplan infrastructure ...

ASIC bans adviser attached to UGC, MWL

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... deputy commissioner Sarah Court told a parliamentary committee that the regulator has identified around 140 financial advisers who were involved in super switching misconduct relating or similar to Shield and First Guardian. "We had a paper at the one ...

Insignia Financial posts strong quarter

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... Boost following its launch on the MLC Expand platform in August." He also added that the acquisition of PMD Financial Advisers has expanded the capacity of its advice business. "Our advice business, Shadforth Financial Group, continued to scale its national ...

Feature: Group insurance | Cold comfort

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... them, with the insurer seeing a 171% increase in claims between 2018 and 2023. Designed in collaboration with financial advisers, TPD Severity offers more flexibility around existing TPD options, allowing advisers to tailor cover to their clients' ...

HUB24 sees $5.2bn in net inflows

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
... active advisers, which is up 11% from 4720 in the prior corresponding period. The strong growth indicates more financial advisers are electing to use HUB24's platform and services, it said, highlighting that it ranked first in the Adviser Ratings ...

ASIC targets potential vertical integration in managed accounts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... governance frameworks, management of conflicts of interest, and outcomes for consumers," the report said. Some financial advisers who do not recommend managed accounts have voiced concerns about the conflicts of interest that infiltrate the ecosystem ...