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Younger Aussies want personalised financial advice: CALI

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2025
... they stay on track." CALI has advocated for more affordable, accessible financial advice, including the support of the federal government's introduction of a new class of adviser who can offer limited advice on life insurance products. Under current ...

Adviser exodus puts retirement savings at risk: CPA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... administrative burdens. However, getting the right advice is only becoming harder to find and more expensive," he said. "The federal government must take action to help alleviate the burden of regulation and costs faced by advisers before the shortage ...

How will Trump's tariffs impact the RBA?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... "I think that the inflation picture confronting the RBA might be a little less challenging than that confronting the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and certainly the Bank of England (BoE)," Miller said. "Australia's eschewal of retaliatory measures against ...

Funeral insurer fined $4.75m

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2025
ACBF Funeral Plans has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay an additional $3.5 million penalty for misrepresenting that it was Aboriginal owned or managed when it was not. ACBF, a wholly owned subsidiary of Youpla Group (then ACBF Group), offered ...

James Mawhinney contravened law: Federal Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2025
... Group director James Mawhinney has been associated with or involved in contraventions of the law by his companies, the Federal Court determined. The contraventions concern the marketing of three products - the M+ Fixed Income Notes, M Core Fixed Income ...

Prime Value expands microcap fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2025
... investors, the strategy will be made accessible to retail investors for the first time under the new structure and name. The federal government canned the Business Innovation and Investment Program (BIIP), which comprised three major visa streams that ...

AMP actions impacted 'hundreds of thousands' of customers: Shine

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2025
... Superannuation has slugged investors with excessive insurance fees. Shine Lawyers confirmed the class action has been filed in the Federal Court of Victoria on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Australians who it alleges were charged excessive insurance ...

AMP hit with multiple court filings

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... proceedings; one a fresh class action and the other from Dexus Funds Management. The class action - which has been lodged in the Federal Court of Victoria - has been filed against N.M. Superannuation Proprietary Limited (N.M. Super) and has also been ...

Improved economy not a guarantee of business success

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... cycle, inflation appears to be under control, the labour market is relatively resilient, and the results of the recent federal election provide for policy certainty, which should help chief financial officers forward plan investment and could help lift ...

Banned director sentenced for running financial services firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... 2023 and fined $6000. He was permanently banned the following year, and ASIC then filed a contempt application in the Federal Court. Now, Fuoco has been convicted on 18 charges of contempt and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, with Justice Horan ...