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Advice industry under strain amid crisis of inefficiencies: Elemnta

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2025
Financial advisers are struggling with inefficiencies in data and implementations that are hindering advice accessibility, growth, and profitability. Early data from the Elemnta-Marshan Consulting 2025 Adviser Efficiency Analysis report highlights three ...

ASIC cracks down on adviser CPD failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
... 2025. The panel decided to give four financial advisers reprimands and to take no action in relation to one financial adviser. ASIC said it is important financial advisers remember continuing professional development is "not merely a compliance obligation ...

Advisers favour non-traditional equity exposures: Fidante

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
Fidante released its Adviser Markets Survey, which revealed that more advisers are favouring non-traditional equity exposures to boost portfolio returns. Findings showed an improvement in market confidence since the beginning of the year. Positive sentiment ...

Majority of SMSF establishments based on bad advice: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
Nearly two thirds of SMSFs established under the recommendations of a financial adviser are unsuitable to their needs and put retirement savings at risk, an ASIC review reveals. Of 100 financial advice files investigated, 62 failed to demonstrate compliance ...

Metrics supports efforts to raise standards in private credit

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
Metrics Credit Partners has strongly supported ASIC's calls for the private credit industry to deliver enhanced standards and says it looks to play a leading role in the process. ASIC's deep dive into the private credit sector revealed fund managers ...

Majority reject crypto investments in super fund: Swyftx

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
Australians do not want their super invested in digital assets, despite some super funds and overseas pension funds dipping their toes in. According to Swyftx's fifth Annual Australian Crypto Survey, based on a survey of some 3009 Australian adults ...

ASIC considers 'cooling off period' for super switching

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
ASIC chair Joe Longo has said introducing "frictions" into the super switching process could help avoid a repeat of the First Guardian and Shield "catastrophe". "No one wants to preside over a problem like this if there are some potential solutions. ...

Paradice lists mid cap strategy as ETF

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
Paradice Investment Management has launched an active ETF focused on Australian mid cap stocks on Cboe. Established in 2006, the fund's strategy has delivered actualised returns of 9.79%, outperforming its benchmark by 2.55% per year. Currently, the ...

Feature: Retirement | The right mix

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... way. "More than that, they actually said 63% of advised Australians say they are better off because they had a financial adviser," says Maloney. "The most compelling one for me is that two-thirds, or 64%, of advised Australians report a positive impact ...

Financial Standard managing editor wins Journalist of the Year Award

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2025
... particularly for small-to-medium businesses. On the night, Health & Finance Integrated's William John took home the Financial Adviser of the Year Award. The Outstanding Achievement Award for this category went to Hayes & Co Insurance's Trish ...