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Federal Court dismisses Freedom Insurance staff allegations

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... crisis before suspending trading in February 2019 before committing to divest all its operations - including financial advice business Spectrum Wealth Advisers - and eventually appointing liquidators in February 2020. ASIC launched the civil action proceedings ...

ASIC targets potential vertical integration in managed accounts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... accounts recommendations can represent a conflict of interest from vertical integration. This can emerge from financial advice groups putting clients into their own investment model portfolio rather than external products as the adviser receives a management ...

MLC Expand targets time savings with new AI capabilities

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... executive Terry Dillon said the feedback on the pilot program has been "overwhelmingly" positive". "We know there's a financial advice gap in Australia, and as a business we're constantly exploring ways to free up our advisers' time to be able to service ...

Feature: Compliance | Passing the buck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... don't really have any obligations. They take advantage of some loopholes in the law which allow them to sell financial advice unsolicited. So that's a challenge," she says. "A good financial adviser doesn't need lead generation services in ...

FINSIA's struggle to find scale

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... financial services professionals of all backgrounds, including the banking, institutional markets, funds management, financial advice and securities sectors. It currently has around 10,000 members. "In any member organisation, there's always a challenge ...

Integro appoints head of advice and growth

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
... including in New South Wales," he said. Gilmour said the expansion will target strategic partnerships with boutique financial advice firms, insurance brokers, lending specialists and accounting practices, which will help create joint ventures and referral ...

AZ NGA acquires majority stake in Geographe Financial Group

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
Advice platform AZ Next Generation Advisory (AZ NGA) has increased its stake in financial advice firm Geographe Financial Group (Geographe). Geographe has provided advice on superannuation, investments and insurance since 1976 for clients in Western ...

ASIC slams licensees' lax offshoring governance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2025
Most financial advice licensees that rely on offshore service providers (OSPs) fail to adequately assess, monitor and audit their arrangements thus putting their processes and business at risk, a new ASIC investigation reveals. ASIC's review of 10 financial ...

Annual ReCALIbrate recipients named

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... director and life insurance specialist Kristy Mitchell. Each recipient is awarded a $2000 grant to attend the Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) Congress in Perth. They also gain access to CALI's exclusive support programs, including its women's ...

Full automation key for business success, but not investments

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... maintain control over decision-making. The AdviceTech 2025 Turning Data Into Growth report, based on over 300 financial advice firms, highlights that these firms are continually seeking to leverage data, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) to ...