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First Sentier adds second active ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
First Sentier Investors is listing its second ETF on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), leveraging its ex-20 Australian share strategy. The First Sentier ex-20 Australian Share Fund Active ETF (ASX: XX20) provides investors long-term returns ...

Advisers acquired 300k new clients in 2025: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
The number of new clients financial advisers acquired amounted to 300,000 in 2025, bucking the downward trend in recent years, an Investment Trends report shows. The 2025 Financial Advice Report found that after several years of decline in client acquisition ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
In the book The Lucky Country, the late author Donald Horne provides a piercing assessment of Australia in 1964, stating that its prosperity is derived from good fortune rather than industriousness or ambition. He ruminated about the future challenges ...

Inflation hits 3.8% in October

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
Inflation rose 3.8% in the year to October, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), beating market expectations of 3.6%. The largest contributors to annual inflation were housing (+5.9%), clothing and footwear (5.4%), education (5.4%) ...

Advisers want to boost client book by 36%: CFS

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025
While financial advisers have marginally increased the number of clients on their books to 112 on average, they aspire to serve 36% more, a new Colonial First State (CFS) survey finds. Advisers on average have increased the number of clients served ...

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 ...

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 ...

Majority reject crypto investments in super fund: Swyftx

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
Australians do not want their super invested in digital assets, despite some super funds and overseas pension funds dipping their toes in. According to Swyftx's fifth Annual Australian Crypto Survey, based on a survey of some 3009 Australian adults ...

Feature: Retirement | The right mix

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
There are many myths about retirement, and one of the most common is that people will run out of money. Even as Australians live longer and many spend up to three decades of their lives retired, the Retirement Income Review (RIR) found the typical retiree ...

Super funds raise stakes in US investments to US$1.44tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
Superannuation funds are tipped to pour US$1.44 trillion into the US economy in 10 years' time - a whopping 44% jump from what the sector originally predicted. Embedded in the landmark critical minerals agreement forged between Prime Minister Anthony ...