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Advised clients more satisfied despite heightened costs: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2026
... they're making an informed judgment and applying a discerning lens to one situation. "I think that's the thing AI will never be able to perfectly replace. There can be some signals to be a bit more personalised, but again, that is something that ...

Super funds show unpreparedness on Payday Super

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2026
... new validation step, but it doesn't help an employee who doesn't know which super fund they are a member of. "The goal has never been to make employers compliant by sending MVRs. It is to make sure employers have the highest possible confidence that ...

FEATURE: Cryptocurrency, control and confidence

VINNY VUCAGO  |  SATURDAY, 15 AUG 2026
... fails, you've got no comeback," she says. For Abood, the challenge is not simply cryptocurrency. History, she notes, has never lacked speculative investment booms. "I think, as humans, we've always been vulnerable to get-rich-quick schemes." ...

AI advice boom highlights urgent need for affordable advice: SMC

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2026
... costs were limiting access to advice as Australians faced increasingly complex financial decisions. "Financial advice has never been more important, but too many Australians simply cannot afford it," Abood said. The FAAA is calling for sustainable compensation ...

Super funds should not be asked to fund the CSLR: ASFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2026
... missing, and how much have they lost?" Delahunty said. "In Australia, we ask how much an investor would have if they had never received bad financial advice and had hypothetically been put into a better investment option. "That pushes the CSLR's compensation ...

Platforms are not solution providers: AZ NGA

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2026
... It's not the platform's process... We are where we are because the advice industry has been so fragmented. "There have never been financially strong, large-scale advice platforms that have the capital to [improve adviser productivity]." Barrett ...

ASIC bans former NextGen Financial Group directors

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2026
... after the firm accepted the determination on 24 November 2022 and agreed to make payment within 28 days. The payment was never made. The group, formerly known as The FinancialLink Group and previously owned by Beacon Financial Group, was an AFCA member ...

KPMG finds new chief executive

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2026
... governance and it will take resolve and endurance." Sams added he is optimistic about the future of the firm, and he would have never taken on this role otherwise. "While the challenges are real, so too are the strengths of this firm and I am equally ...

LRBA ban requires immediate clarity: SMSFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2026
... real property borrowing turn on the business real property definition in the SIS Act which is a complex technical test, never designed to operate as the gateway for all SMSF property borrowing."

Poor succession plans expose advice firms to crisis events: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2026
... bells" for those that have not a conducted formal external valuation of the practice. Some 56% of practices surveyed have never had one. "Firstly, a formal external valuation ensures there is not an unrealistic expectation as to the value of the business. ...