According to CFS, the initiative is designed to address persistent gaps in estate planning, with more than half of Australian ...

Like any profession that deals with clients, financial advice is a two-way street. An adviser can give perfectly good advice, ...

The insurer’s new Lifestream Guaranteed Income solution is designed to provide predictable income for life, positioning ...

Announcing its FY26 first-half results on Tuesday morning, Challenger was bullish on the broader retirement income market, with managing director and chief executive Nick Hamilton saying it is ...

The last six months have been particularly rocky for US tech stocks, with both its peaks and troughs swinging more wildly than the broader S&P 500. Year-to-date the gap between the tech index and the ...

With January 2026 marking the start of financial advice being positioned as a ‘profession’, will this be the year that ...

After the final report for the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry was handed down in February 2019, it was a tumultuous period for the ...

The move follows Esencia Wealth’s formation 18 months ago through the merger of four like-minded advice firms and signals the group’s intention to continue scaling while maintaining a focus on client ...

As the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) works through the roughly 2,000 Shield and First Guardian related complaints it has received so far, lead ombudsman for investments and advice ...

According to Joe Davis, Vanguard’s global chief economist, the “more bullish you are on AI, the less you should overweight tech and US tech in your portfolio”. While the sentiment appears to be ...

After months of losses or, at best, single digit gains, adviser numbers grew by net 11 in the week ending 12 February, pushing the total individuals on the Financial Adviser Register (FAR) up to ...

For a while now, the advice sector has seen some of the larger players increasingly invest and expand their digital advice offerings.   “Digital advice leverages advanced algorithms to deliver ...