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SMC makes recommendations to safeguard super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2025
... early and act sooner. "The social licence of the whole system relies on strong trust in super and strong trust in good advice - and Australians rightly expect there to be strong uniform consumer protections across the entire system," SMC said. "The collapses ...

Estimated CSLR levy comes in at $127m for FY27

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2025
The Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) is estimating the sub-sector levy to be payable by the financial advice industry in FY27 will be $126.9 million - but that doesn't account for First Guardian and Shield. In total, the initial estimate ...

AustralianSuper's 'ambitious' advice goal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
... personalise all of that?" Brockie said the fund is building an "integrated retirement ecosystem" that will incorporate income, advice and support to help members feel more confident as they approach retirement. "Around 50% of our members going into retirement ...

MST Financial acquires FIIG Securities' unit, boosts assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
MST Financial has bolstered its funds under management and advice to $700 million with the acquisition of FIIG Securities' asset management unit from AUSIEX. After acquiring FIIG in May, AUSIEX has transferred the former's income managed funds and individually ...

JANA deepens bench with six principal promotions

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... advisory, research and investment teams - which now sees 100 professionals managing more than $1.7 trillion in funds under advice. Six have been named principal consultant: Bill Dwyer, Ed Giudice and Prashanthi Nadarajah on the client advisory side ...

ASIC acts against MWL, its director and lead generator

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... Services, its former director Nicholas Maikousis, and lead generator Imperial Capital Group Australia over alleged Shield advice failures. ASIC alleges that MWL operated a business model that provided inappropriate financial advice to clients to invest ...

Brighter Super expands senior team

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... introduced three new senior leadership positions. It has appointed Hayley Powell as head of superannuation and retirement advice, Craig Godfrey as head of IFA partnership and growth, and Brendan Nerdal as head of stakeholder and corporate relations. ...

SQM Research faces court over 'favourable' rating of Shield

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... trustees, subsequently leading some 5800 people to invest in Shield. In many cases, people invested in Shield after receiving advice from financial advisers, ASIC added. Commenting, ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court said it is the first time ASIC has acted ...

Interprac sued over Shield, First Guardian failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... because of "critical oversight and compliance failures" by Interprac that thousands of Australians received poor financial advice, putting their retirement savings at significant risk. At 10.20am, following ASIC's announcement, Sequoia Financial ...

Super performance test, DBFO reforms coming: Government

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
... reforms, Mulino asked for patience as the government continues to work through complexities in enabling greater access to advice, while still ensuring the safety of consumers. "Where an organisation is advising about its own products, we just need to ...