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RBA cuts rates, experts debate next moves

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
As widely anticipated, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) delivered a 0.25% interest rate cut at the August meeting, bringing the official cash rate down to 3.6%. The RBA board noted that the easing in inflation alongside a softening in the labour ...

Some Australians being taxed more on super than pay: SMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... large swathes of the Australian community is alleviating pressure on the Age Pension and will continue to do so. "Australia is one of the few OECD countries whose spending on the Age Pension is expected to decrease as a proportion of GDP in decades to ...

Insignia offloads IOOF Alliances to Entireti

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... said: "This strategic alliance brings together the industry's two leading licensing and business services providers under one strong brand and proposition to empower self-licensed advice professionals to deliver quality advice and build strong bu ...

Pacific Equity Partners takes stake in data centres

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... partner helps to secure a funding pathway for its development pipeline. "We are pleased to reach this agreement with PEP, one of Australia's leading private capital managers with a strong track record of growing businesses across New Zealand and Australia," ...

HESTA to lower insurance fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... coverage is critical and can provide peace of mind to members and their families. "It's a great outcome for our more than one million members that we'll be able to help cut insurance costs for them at a time when many Australians are experiencing higher ...

Superannuation fraudster sentenced to prison

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2025
... District Court on 7 August 2025 after pleading guilty to three counts of fraud contrary to section 408C(1)(a)(i), (2)(d) and one count of fraud contrary to section 408C(1)(a)(i), (2A) of the of Criminal Code (Qld). Steele was sentenced to eight years ...

CFS prices advice practice valuation gap at $1.1m

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2025
... account the non-financial aspects because that's what exposes them to risks and ultimately drives down their value." About one third of financial advisers said they want to exit the business within the next five years. The same number are planning to ...

CSC quashes internal bullying, sexism claims

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2025
... stated that Hill downplayed the organisation's gender pay gap. According to Workplace Gender Equality Agency data, CSC has one of the highest gender pay gaps in the financial services industry. It recorded a 22.1% gender pay gap for total median remuneration ...

Four men charged over sophisticated bond scam

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... quality, mimicking or copying actual prospectuses from major financial services providers." The fake investments ranged from one to 10 year-terms with fixed returns between 4.5% and 9.5% per annum. Although it is not alleged that the group was "directly ...

Treasury launches retirement phase consultations

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
Treasury has launched two consultations relating to the retirement phase, one of which seeks the right metrics and indicators to create transparency and improve retirement outcomes. The proposed Retirement Reporting Framework will require trustees to ...