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Outsourcing will 'supercharge' value of advice: Netwealth

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2025
A new report from Netwealth outlines key methods of growth for advice businesses, including pinpointing where to outsource some business activities. Netwealth's Innovation starts with curiosity report touches on several solutions, spanning from ...

Hiring blitz continues at Ascalon

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2025
Ascalon Capital has appointed an industry heavyweight to oversee business partnerships, marking the latest addition to the firm's senior leadership team. In his new role, Guy Ballard will oversee platform and fund relationships, distribution, practice ...

Rest launches new retirement tools to increase advice appetite

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2025
... experience designed to simplify members' access to its resources for retirement needs, especially for its advice business. The Rest Retire Ready is designed to connect pre-retiree members to the fund's tools, services and educational content. ...

Shield, First Guardian fallout calls for tougher scrutiny on research houses, licensee governance

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... "unrealistic" given the capital intensity of conducting auditing and review processes. "If you're a relatively small advice business, how are you ever going to be able to replicate the expertise and the experience of an investment business with a chief ...

Insignia Financial posts strong quarter

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... platform in August." He also added that the acquisition of PMD Financial Advisers has expanded the capacity of its advice business. "Our advice business, Shadforth Financial Group, continued to scale its national footprint with the acquisition of PMD ...

Federal Court dismisses Freedom Insurance staff allegations

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... before suspending trading in February 2019 before committing to divest all its operations - including financial advice business Spectrum Wealth Advisers - and eventually appointing liquidators in February 2020. ASIC launched the civil action proceedings ...

Feature: Compliance | Passing the buck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... putting on new financial advisers, because the cost of doing that keeps escalating," Abood says. "The average advice business now has 2.6 advisers. So, a bunch of small businesses just can't fund it, and there's no point bankrupting this sector ...

Integro appoints head of advice and growth

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
... adviser capability and partner network. This next phase reflects our commitment to building a nationally recognised advice business with deep technical expertise and a client-first culture," Gilmour said.

AZ NGA acquires majority stake in Geographe Financial Group

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
Advice platform AZ Next Generation Advisory (AZ NGA) has increased its stake in financial advice firm Geographe Financial Group (Geographe). Geographe has provided advice on superannuation, investments and insurance since 1976 for clients in Western ...

Platform trustees told to improve investment governance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2025
The regulator has written to platform trustees in the wake of the First Guardian and Shield Master Fund collapses, alerting them to the need to strengthen their investment governance processes. In its letter, it shared initial findings from the thematic ...