Westpac announces winners of inaugural Female Founder Awards

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Westpac has announced the five winners of the inaugural Westpac Female Founder Awards, a national awards program recognising female entrepreneurs building businesses across Australia. The winners are: Female Founder of... Read more continue reading

12 engagement barriers that we must address

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There are many barriers which can prevent a prospect from engaging in the professional financial advice process, and those prospect barriers are our problem to address. We have to try... Read more continue reading

Vanguard welcomes national focus on financial capability

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With financial literacy rates in Australia remaining low, Vanguard Australia has welcomed the launch of the Parliamentary Friends of Financial Capability (PFG), a new non-partisan parliamentary group established to elevate... Read more continue reading

Aged Care Steps launches 2026 Aged Care Adviser of the Year Awards

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Since the Aged Care Act reforms took effect on 1 November 2025, advisers across the country have had to get across a new accommodation pricing structure, a new Support at... Read more continue reading

CPD: Trust – the unseen foundation of ethical financial advice

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Trust sits at the heart of every successful financial advice relationship. In this article, proudly sponsored by GSFM, the importance of the trust relationship and its link to ethical practice... Read more continue reading

CPD: ASIC’s 2026 review of qualification compliance – practical implications

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Imagine you were qualified but nobody told ASIC Imagine you had met the exacting educational standards to practice as a financial adviser, but someone didn’t tell ASIC, or at least,... Read more continue reading

Offshore isn’t the risk – doing it without structure is

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Ask a room of advice principals whether their offshore support is properly structured and most of them will say yes. But our experience suggests the answer is not always as... Read more continue reading

Getting more prospects to buy your advice

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To get prospects to buy your advice and change direction you have to “sell emotion” and support it with logic, right? Not quite….there is a piece missing in this formula... Read more continue reading

One in every 100 identity check failures involves a deepfake document, image or liveness video

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LexisNexis® Risk Solutions warns that the latest wave of AI-generated deepfake documents, images and liveness videos could leave organizations significantly exposed if their identity and customer onboarding checks fail to... Read more continue reading