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Is InterPrac sale in clients’ best interests?

Is InterPrac sale in clients’ best interests?

Major licensee heads and financial advisers are questioning whose interests are being best served by Sequoia's sale of InterPrac.
Original CSLR cost estimates wildly inadequate

Original CSLR cost estimates wildly inadequate

CSLR chief executive, David Berry has revealed the degree to which the scheme costs have far outstripped original estimates.
Morningstar backs Insignia sale to CC Capital

Morningstar backs Insignia sale to CC Capital

Research house, Morningstar has backed shareholder acceptance of CC Capital's bid for Insignia Financial pointing to a "compelling premium".
Seated businessman springs over tax

TPB’s draft sheet says AI won’t shift practitioners’ responsibility

Binaya Dahal 25 March 2026

Accounting

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The Tax Practitioners Board has released draft guidance on the use of AI and the Code of Professional Conduct for public consultation.

Man uses ipad to utilise digital advice

Padua chief touts data automation to reshape advice sector

Binaya Dahal 25 March 2026

Fintech

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Padua Solutions Matthew Esler says data automation holds transformative potential within the financial advice sector in Australia.

Younger Australians drive support for extended families

Binaya Dahal 25 March 2026

Financial Planning

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AMP research shows younger Australians are increasingly open to multigenerational living model to share costs and manage financial pressures.

Gold prices

Investors’ rally around gold a ‘textbook’ safe haven move

Yasmine Raso 25 March 2026

Investment

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Investors have moved quickly to reap the ‘safe haven’ rewards offered by gold amid market volatility fuelled by tensions in the Middle East.

Investment laptop

10-20% reduction in platform super options predicted

Mike Taylor 24 March 2026

Superannuation

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New Mercer research is pointing to platforms being pressed to reduce their superannuation investment menus by as much as 25%.

Prejudgement

InterPrac sale the result of a silent, non-legal squeeze

Mike Taylor 24 March 2026

Financial Planning

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With the courts yet to even hear many of ASIC’s charges related to Shield and First Guardian companies are already being commercially punished.

Telescope looking into past

Conquest’s modest punt on InterPrac

Mike Taylor 24 March 2026

Financial Planning

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The man heading up Conquest Investment Partners, the firm acquiring InterPrac, John Pereira has not made headlines for more than a decade.


INDUSTRY NEWS

How to retire with confidence: what successful retirees know

Financial Newswire Contributor 15 March 2026

Industry News

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A confident retirement should be within reach for every Australian, but with longer lifespans and rising living costs, retirees face growing

TPD Severity – built for today’s realities

Financial Newswire Contributor 2 March 2026

Industry News

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TPD Severity offers a modern solution that blends seamlessly with existing TPD products, giving financial advisers a flexible, smarter, and more

Challenger

Is your retirement advice built to last?

Financial Newswire Contributor 10 February 2026

Industry News

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As Australians live longer, longevity risk is reshaping retirement advice. Our guide helps advisers build resilient retirement income plans.

Unlock faster underwriting for smoother approvals

Financial Newswire Contributor 1 February 2026

Industry News

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Experience the future of faster underwriting with digital PMARs and automated decisioning. Deliver enhanced precision, smarter processing, and quicker


Partnership deal

InterPrac goes to private equity

Mike Taylor 23 March 2026

Financial Planning

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Sequoia is expected to exit a trading halt announcing it has sold InterPrac to private equity player Conquest Investment Partners.

Skull, laptop and old books

History’s grim lessons for InterPrac

Mike Taylor 20 March 2026

Financial Planning

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There are some grim lessons from history facing Sequoia Financial as it seeks to navigate the future of troubled licensee, InterPrac.

Sinking ships

InterPrac loses 7 more advisers

Mike Taylor 20 March 2026

Financial Planning

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While Sequoia continues to mull over the future of advice licensee, InterPrac, advisers are voting with their feet and departing to new homes.

Arrows showing old way and new way

Older Australians, high-earners switching to super platforms

Yasmine Raso 24 March 2026

Fintech

One Comment

New FSC data has debunked recent assertions made by the SMC over a “spike” in the number of Australians switching to super platforms.

Pay day inked on calendar

Lack of awareness, confidence ahead of payday super start

Yasmine Raso 24 March 2026

Superannuation

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New research commissioned by MLC has found Australians remain either unaware of the legislation or when it is scheduled to come into effect.

cyber security

Cyber risk protections now measured against super fund readiness

Yasmine Raso 23 March 2026

Superannuation

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The Epic Retirement Tick measuring super funds’ retirement-readiness will now include cyber security as a measurable criteria.

Man tripped by volatile markets

Volatility hands active pickers an edge on micro-caps

Binaya Dahal 24 March 2026

Investment

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Ellerston Capital’s Jack Briggs says recent market dislocations are opening attractive entry points across the small and micro-cap universe.

Artificial intelligence

AI job cuts driven by decade of over-hiring

Mike Taylor 23 March 2026

Investment

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Morningstar market strategist Lochlan Halloway says recent job cuts by Atlassian, Block and others may simply reflect a decade of over-hiring.

private credit

Private Credit – ASIC raises the bar

Financial Newswire Contributor 23 March 2026

Investment

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Rather than cooling demand, ASIC’s review of private credit is likely generate positives around better investor understanding.