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LGT Crestone, AUSIEX acquisitions finalised

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
AUSIEX has finalised its acquisition of FIIG Holdings, while LGT Crestone's takeover of Commonwealth Bank of Australia's (CBA) private wealth business has completed. AUSIEX, which is a subsidiary of Nomura Research Institute (NRI), has now expanded ...

New SMSF trustees drive financial advice uptake

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2025
... significant advice gaps for many individuals operating their own super fund. "Only 24% of SMSFs currently use a financial adviser, which is not ideal when you think of the many complexities associated with managing superannuation including keeping track ...

Count Financial class action dismissed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2025
Count Financial has successfully defended itself against a class action which was filed in 2020 alleging it failed to ensure financial advisers were acting in their clients' best interests. The case has been before the court for just shy of five years ...

Industry groups hammer out guidance on tax-deductible advice fees

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA), in consultation with leading accounting bodies, has released new guidance on tax-deductible advice fees. The guidance follows the release of the ATO Tax Determination in September last year, which the ...

Alternatives spark 'real' opportunities for HNW advisers

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
There are an increasing number of high-net-worth (HNW) investors using alternative assets to diversify, protect against inflation and lessen returns related to the public markets, with Praemium saying advisers should look to capitalise from this trend. ...

Former Sydney adviser sentenced to three years

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
Former financial adviser David Mario Valvo, who doubled as a comedian, was sentenced to three years imprisonment. Valvo's sentence was handed down in Downing Centre District Court in February, but was suspended upon several conditions including that ...

Former adviser accused of theft loses lengthy extradition fight

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
A former financial adviser now residing in New Zealand lost a bid to stop her from being extradited to Australia to face 136 charges related to the alleged theft of clients' retirement savings. Marion Joan Pearson, formerly based in Perth, is accused ...

Advice bodies want efficiency, long-term solutions from Mulino

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
Australia's top advice associations are eagerly anticipating meaningful and swift changes to take place under new financial services minister Daniel Mulino, optimistic that critical reforms in the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) and Delivering ...

NAB MySuper class action settlement approved

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
The Federal Court approved the $65 million settlement that was reached in December. At the end of 2024, MLC Super Fund, NULIS Nominees and MLC Nominees agreed to settle the class action that was brought against it for deferring the transition of members ...

HESTA members to keep paying fees as disruption continues

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... it's never involved freezing anyone's money for any period of time," Lythgo Crew Wealth Management senior financial adviser Dane Windshuttle said in a LinkedIn post. Meanwhile, Zeal Wealth's Leslie Brown wrote: "Trying to gather information ...