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Cost-of-living, unaffordable advice fuels financial stress: Surveys

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... situation is in dire straits as many struggle with the cost-of-living crisis and do not know the best place to seek financial advice, new surveys reveal. One survey from MLC conducted by McCrindle found that only one third (34%) of participants feel ...

Centrepoint Alliance locks in hundreds of Brighter Super advice clients

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
... Financial Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Brighter Super, last month. Its advice business subsidiary, Financial Advice Matters, is now responsible for servicing most of these members. Brighter Super, which has over 280,000 members, selected Financial ...

DASH partners with S64

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... (DASH) and S64 have announced a strategic partnership designed to enhance access to private market investments for financial advice firms and their clients. Through the partnership, Australian advisers will have access to private markets, multi-jurisdictional ...

Entireti, Otivo enter strategic alliance for digital advice

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... to share its knowledge and collaborate to make quality advice accessible and affordable. "We know that quality financial advice changes lives and can deliver confidence and certainty, but cost is still the biggest inhibitor. Advisers have the answers ...

Former Sydney adviser sentenced to three years

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... "clearly in a position of trust and he broke the trust of the 12 victims for whom he was supposed to be providing financial advice and assistance". Valvo's guilty plea was taken into account by the Judge when handing down sentence. ASIC deputy chair ...

Advice bodies want efficiency, long-term solutions from Mulino

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... financial advisers, and ultimately increase costs and reduce accessibility of advice for all Australians. The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) general manager for policy, advocacy and standards Phil Anderson is urging to push through a suite ...

Daniel Mulino takes over financial services portfolio

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... University, and also previously taught economics at Yale and at Monash University. In welcoming Mulino to the role, Financial Advice Association Australia chief executive Sarah Abood said she is looking forward to working with him on areas in need of ...

Former financial adviser charged in alleged $160k super fraud case

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
... appear at Blacktown Local Court on June 16. According to the Financial Advisers Register, Popal first provided financial advice in 2004 and was previously an authorised representative for Alpha Investment Management from April 2014 to March 2016. During ...

Reducing super tax cap to $2m 'a concern': FAAA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) chief executive Sarah Abood has voiced concerns about the future of Div 296, given Labor's overwhelming victory at the federal election. The proposed 30% tax on superannuation balances above $3 million could ...

Industry bodies call for delay to Payday Super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
A collective of industry bodies, including Chartered Accountants ANZ and the Financial Advice Association Australia, want the government to push the implementation of Payday Super to July 2028. In a joint submission to Treasury, eight industry lobby ...