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Advice industry under strain amid crisis of inefficiencies: Elemnta

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2025
Financial advisers are struggling with inefficiencies in data and implementations that are hindering advice accessibility, growth, and profitability. Early data from the Elemnta-Marshan Consulting 2025 Adviser Efficiency Analysis report highlights three ...

Feature: Retirement | Rewarding risk

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... most sensitive to market and sequencing risk. "But to be honest, if you wind the clock back to before the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), I bet most people would never have heard of sequencing risk," says Teh. "It was only when the GFC happened that everybody ...

Feature: Group insurance | Cold comfort

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... achieve genuine indemnification for financial loss of customers. "Australia is in the middle of a national mental health crisis, and we need to set clear, evidence-based guidance about the support life insurers provide," Cupitt says. "Insurers will always ...

Federal Court dismisses Freedom Insurance staff allegations

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... Bali, Indonesia. In late 2018, Freedom Insurance ceased selling life insurance and flagged the likelihood of a liquidity crisis before suspending trading in February 2019 before committing to divest all its operations - including financial advice business ...

New 100% tariffs on China: Another TACO moment?

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
... impact on the behaviour of Xi Jinping, there's none whatsoever." McCormick does not foresee "a major systemic risk crisis" ensuing from the latest tariff shocks. "But we're not done in terms of discounting tariffs in financial markets," he added. ...

Insurers design framework for dealing with mental health claims

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025
... role life insurance plays in relation to mental health issues. "Australia is in the middle of a national mental health crisis, and we need to set clear, evidence-based guidance about the support life insurers provide," she said. "Insurers will always ...

Removing CGT breaks could boost budget by $22.7bn: Report

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2025
... executive Chrisanta Muli describes these findings as evidence that the Australian tax system is exacerbating the inequality crisis. Muli said: "Our tax system is deepening inequality because it fails to tax wealth. For decades, Australia has been becoming ...

National decline in retirement confidence: AMP

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2025
... financially confident Australians feel about life after work. The inaugural score is a concerning 50/100. Amidst a cost-of-living crisis and spikes in household expenses, the annual cost of comfortable retirement has risen by over $13,000 in the last ...

FEATURE: Back in action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
... Advice, tells it, gearing - and specifically the use of margin loans - was a popular method of investing pre-Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The problem that arose was many investors were taking out margin loans and investing the money into only a handful ...

NZ Super delivers 11.84%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2025
... performance of global markets over the past 20 years - despite two once-in-a-generation crises in the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19."