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Most read in 2025: Financial advice

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2025
There was no shortage of news impacting the financial advice community this year, with advisers bearing the brunt of negative sentiment in the wake of First Guardian and Shield collapses. But there were some bright spots throughout the year, including ...

Netwealth to spend $101m compensating First Guardian victims

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025
... Fund. The trustees of the fund, Netwealth Superannuation Services (NSS) and Netwealth Investments Limited (NIL), will now face ASIC in court after admitting it "did not assess sufficient information about the First Guardian Master Fund, or make sufficient ...

AMP upgrades North

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2025
... their client," he said. While current technology is providing foundational supports, he added, it still lacklustre in the face of mounting demands for accessible, high-quality financial advice. "Platforms can often just launch a whole bunch of features ...

Natixis, Generali call off $3.2tn joint venture talks

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
Natixis Investment Managers and Generali Investment Holdings (GIH) have decided to call off their plans for a joint venture, citing conditions not ripe to reach a final agreement. Natixis' owner BPCE and GIH's parent company Generali said they ...

RBA hike may come as soon as February

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... has shown the nation may be at an inflection point, highlighting the challenges the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will face in setting policy next year. Citi economists have changed their outlook from an assumption the RBA would remain on hold to anticipating ...

ASIC issues $2.2m infringement notices

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
Following a three-month surveillance, ASIC has issued infringement notices to 12 large proprietaries companies for failing to lodge their FY24 audited financial reports on time. The household names facing infringement notices include Aje Hold, Bing ...

ASIC class relief for digital assets now effective

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
... products in Australia. "However, it only applies to 'eligible' stablecoins and wrapped tokens, meaning many digital assets still face regulatory uncertainty. It probably does not go far enough for participants wanting greater regulatory clarity."

APRA consults on CPS 230 amendments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
... amendments. In particular, APRA asked entities if the draft amendments adequately address the challenges regulated entities face when applying the CPS 230 contractual and service level obligations to material arrangements with NTSPs; and what additional ...

Ontario Teachers' sells majority stake in Sydney desalination plant

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... about 15% of Sydney's daily drinking water needs. The plant substantially improves Sydney's water resilience in the face of increasing climate change-exacerbated extreme weather events, including floods, droughts, and population growth increasing ...

Renters need twice as much super, risk poverty in retirement: SCA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... Social Services Tanya Plibersek to address Rent Assistance as a matter of urgency. Every day this isn't addressed, renters face an impossible financial challenge in retirement." Data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows there were ...