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Industry groups hammer out guidance on tax-deductible advice fees

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... Accountants senior tax adviser Tony Greco said he's hopeful the guide will be helpful to the financial services community with "real clarity" of the approach to apportionment and deductibility more generally.

Aware Super cuts fees for retiree members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... collective $18 million in fees. "Projects such as our three-year digital transformation program, completed in 2023, are delivering real benefits for all our members, including lower costs, better services, more personalised advice and a stronger fund ...

Cost-of-living, unaffordable advice fuels financial stress: Surveys

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
Even with more potential interest rate cuts in the works, Australians feel as though their financial situation is in dire straits as many struggle with the cost-of-living crisis and do not know the best place to seek financial advice, new surveys reveal. ...

Why emotions, cash derail good investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
While we know that during turbulent times it is critical not to let emotions get in the way of investing, an investment expert and former policymaker says it is equally important to remain active and not lean in on cash. Amid the volatility and frenetic ...

DeepSeek, Alibaba: Silver linings for emerging markets strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... of the index in 2016. At the end of April, it had a weighting of 6.5%. "What was once a growth darling, was reduced to a real value stock," Whiting told Financial Standard. Alibaba suffered on the back of co-founder Jack Ma's sudden hiatus from the ...

Former director sentenced over 'test' trading accounts

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... a third-party platform. But in reality, investors were provided "test" trading accounts that "were not capable of placing real foreign exchange trades." "Investors used these 'test' accounts to conduct what they believed to be genuine trading; however ...

Australian Unity offloads property fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... said PIF unitholders will benefit from access to a highly specialised team with deep experience and a proven track record in real estate investment. Saliba said the transaction aligned with the group's strategy of focussing on areas where it can "operate ...

MA Financial eyes acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
MA Financial has confirmed it is in talks to acquire IP Generation (IPG), a real estate asset manager with around $2 billion in assets under management (AUM). "MA Financial has a longstanding relationship with IPG, having provided property management ...

CSC, Future Fund, RBA pay data released

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... enacted, Commonwealth public sector employers need to work deliberately and strategically to drive cultural change that removes real or perceived penalties for taking time out for caring roles and ensure more men have confidence to take primary carer's ...

Stockbroking faces 'perception problem'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
Experts at the Stockbrokers and Investment Advisers Association's (SIAA) 2025 conference have told the industry it needs to work to improve its public perception, particularly around the profession of stockbroking. Morgans Financial chief executive ...