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Adviser-client relationships eroded by AI: Research

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2026
... AI-enabled advisory tools, which are beneficial, but they also introduce a "competitive pressure" for human advisers, fearful of being replaced. Based on two case studies involving financial advice, advisers tend to perceive AI as inferior to themselves ...

Australians fearful of getting their investments wrong: CFS

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026
New research highlights the investment sentiment among everyday Australians continues to rise but hesitancy is gating them from investing. New findings from Colonial First State's (CFS) latest research, based on a national survey of 2250 Australians ...

Australia maintains global retirement security ranking: Natixis

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
... integral role in Australia's consistent top ten ranking for retirement security. "Still, it's concerning that Australians are fearful for their stability in retirement. Pressures from inflation, the cost of living and higher interest rates are undeniably ...

Lower interest rates conducive for bigger risk appetite, small caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... overlooked for some time. Back when interest rates lifted out of negative territory and ratcheted up, investors became fearful. "When people get fearful, they run away from anything that's got to do risk. Investors also believe that, operationally ...

The sensitive conversations advisers shy away from

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024
... clients' financial lives and how this intersects with their personal lives and vice versa are areas they should not be fearful of discussing. Divorce, financial coercion, and family planning are some of these complex areas that advisers can broach ...

Russell Investments default option returns up to 12.3%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2024
... Choo said. "This year's performance reflects the importance of balancing investment opportunities when markets are fearful and knowing when to dial down as markets become overexuberant." GoalTracker's investment objective for members under 50 ...

Perpetual hires new distribution lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2023
... 2015, he launched Latch Social, a social media service for financial advisers. Back then, compliance demands made advisers fearful of using social media and consequently, many missed out on high client engagement, referrals and business development. ...

Rating the rating houses: How much do advisers rely on fund research?

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2023
... core to our business model." As a result, this enables Morningstar to grade a negative rating to products and "not be fearful". "The debate is eternal about, 'Are we doing the right thing?' Not about whether or not someone's paying us and ...

Retirement fears on the rise: AMP

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2022
... concerned about how higher costs will affect their retirement lifestyle. "The research shows that millions of Australians are fearful they will not have enough savings for their retirement," AMP general manager retirement solutions Ben Hillier said. ...

Chief economist: Thank you, Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022
... benefit anyone. Like all the geopolitical tensions before this, those who were brave enough to "be greedy when everybody was fearful" would reap their just reward. War may be good for absolutely nothing, but history proves that it creates a cheaper entry ...
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