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CFS prices advice practice valuation gap at $1.1m

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2025
... their practices. The Hidden Value Report, produced in conjunction with Succession Plus, surveyed 116 practices which on average generate $2.71 million in revenue, while annual profit reported come to $848,781. The survey found that the value gap was ...

Payday super delays will cost workers: ASFA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... super can significantly impact a worker's long-term financial security. ASFA modelling found that a 30-year-old worker on average wages who misses out on one year of contributions will retire with $25,000 less in their super. "Superannuation is the kind ...

Top Australian CIOs revealed

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2025
... Rainmaker Information. "Notwithstanding the economic challenges globally, MySuper assets have continued to grow at above average historical levels since the global pandemic, more than outpacing above average inflation in the same period." Rainmaker Information ...

Australian Ethical lifts investment fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2025
... effective over time," Australian Ethical said. "While our overall allocation to alternative assets has increased, the average costs of our investment in alternative assets per additional dollar invested has decreased. This is expected to continue to ...

PC recommends switch to digital financial reporting

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2025
... into productivity the PC is undertaking, presenting practical reforms to get Australia back on the path to growth. "The average Australian today enjoys living standards three times higher than the average Australian in the 1960s, due in part to the productivity ...

Return to office mandates to harm firms, careers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... impose stricter return to office mandates; the unemployment rate in financial services is much higher than the national average, particularly for top earners, the review shows. And now the impacts of what happens when employees don't return to the ...

Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... Out (ABDO) on the Central Coast today. Focusing on behavioural finance, Li explained that the human brain can process an average of 11 million bits of information per second. However, the conscious brain can only process about 50, and when there's ...

HESTA calls for reforms to help women in retirement

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... as much as $400,000 more in retirement, new HESTA modelling suggests. The modelling showed women representative of the average HESTA member were projected to retire with $712,000 if earning the new higher rate of super for their entire working lives ...

Sequoia resumes trading after ASX query

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
... In the past five days, Sequoia's share price had dropped more than 21% with trading volumes almost double the five-day average. In response to the ASX query, Sequoia said it was not aware of any information that could explain the recent trading in its ...

Advisers overlook hype, embed AI in practice: Investment Trends

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... In terms of technology spend, this calculated to be $38,000 per practice. The number of platforms used by advisers on average has dropped from 2.2 last year to 2, with 71% of new client flows now directed to advisers' primary platform. "Advisers ...