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Majority of SMSF establishments based on bad advice: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... relating to recommendations to set up an SMSF. Only 38 files demonstrated compliance with the longstanding obligation for advisers to act in clients' best interests. For clients that were given improper advice, ASIC concluded that advisers were not basing ...

Metrics supports efforts to raise standards in private credit

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... market grows," Challenger chief executive Victor Rodriguez said. A VanEck survey in September 2025 of over 500 financial advisers found that 40% do not allocate client funds to private markets at all, and a further 27.4% only do so opportunistically. ...

Majority reject crypto investments in super fund: Swyftx

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... around fraud (31%)," the report said. "We expect this trend to continue until digital assets are legislated and financial advisers are able to support their clients on the asset class." Despite this, there remains a conviction among Australians that ...

ASIC considers 'cooling off period' for super switching

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... money to an entirely different space and very quickly. And remember, that often involves lead generators and financial advisers." Longo said while there are no silver bullets, the regulator is considering options to slow the process of super switching ...

Paradice lists mid cap strategy as ETF

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... Management managing director David Paradice said that mid caps are starting to generate strong demand from financial advisers, and actively managed ETFs are growing in popularity across Australia. As of mid-2025 actively managed ETFs made up 37% of all ...

Feature: Retirement | The right mix

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... like us, technology providers who are increasingly producing solutions that bring the cost of delivering advice down for advisers because we drive efficiency in their back office." More clients seen means the cost of advice comes down, and technology ...

Outsourcing will 'supercharge' value of advice: Netwealth

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2025
... and 39%). However, speaking to Financial Standard recently, Akambo managing director Joe Akiki observed that Australian advisers exhibit the attitude of 'doing everything themselves', which he said is inefficient and those that are successful ...

Most influential advisers of 2025 revealed

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2025
The annual Financial Standard Power50 has been revealed. Now in its 12 th year, the FS Power50 celebrates financial advisers promoting the value of the financial advice and the profession while providing outstanding service to their clients and wider ...

BlackRock confirms Bitcoin ETF launch

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2025
... can become financial products under the updated guidance of Information Sheet 225. ASIC is reminding entities and their advisers to rigorously assess whether their digital asset products fall within the definition of financial products, and, if so, to ...

Number of AFSLs plateaus: Rainmaker

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2025
At end September 2025 there were 15,446 ASIC-registered financial advisers in Australia, according to the Rainmaker Financial Adviser report. Over the year to September, there was a decrease of 71 advisers, with 10 leaving the industry in the September ...