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Moral hazard label

Rules make advisers the CSLR patsies

Mike Taylor 3 March 2026 One Comment

Financial advice licensees and advisers are being trapped by the moral hazard inherent in excluding MIS from the CSLR funding regime.

Circuit breaker

Magellan reboots via a Barrenjoey merger circuit breaker

Mike Taylor 3 March 2026 No Comments

Magellan FG’s merger with Barrenjoey represents the circuit-breaker which helps the fund manager leave reputational issues in the past.

Old couple walking on pile of coins, businessman behind them on other pile of coins

MLC completes Retirement Boost launch with income phase

Yasmine Raso 3 March 2026 No Comments

MLC Expand has completed its MLC Retirement Boost launch, with the retirement income phase now available after savings was released last year.

HUB24 Investment platform

HUB24 flags disruptions around platform upgrade

Mike Taylor 3 March 2026 No Comments

Major platform HUB24 has forewarned financial advisers of disruptions over two days later this months related to an upgrade by Clearstream.

Money cash in hand

Daintree urges advisers to look past RBA decisions

Binaya Dahal 3 March 2026 No Comments

Daintree Capital’s Justin Tyler says advisers’ local cash rate obsession risks missing the bigger shift underway in credit markets.

AFCA grows exec team ahead of remit expansion

Binaya Dahal 3 March 2026 No Comments

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has appointed Deborah Jenkins, Stevie-Ann Dovico and Brigid Parsonson in several executive roles.

TPD Severity – built for today’s realities

Financial Newswire Contributor 2 March 2026 No Comments

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

anonymous

Industry funds urge name veil on private credit disclosures

Mike Taylor 2 March 2026 No Comments

The Super Members Council is urging ASIC to mirror its treatment of derivatives for private debt by removing the names of counterparties.

Funding

Make ASIC fund independent PDS assessments – AIOFP

Mike Taylor 2 March 2026 No Comments

ASIC should be made to tap into funds from the ASIC levy to fund independent assessments of MIS Product Disclosure Statements says AIOFP.

Man holds head amid question marks

FAAA seeks clarity from AUSTRAC amid conflicting legal advice

Mike Taylor 2 March 2026 No Comments

The FAAA has sought clarity in circumstances where AUSTRAC’s latest changes have not only confused advisers but their lawyers as well.

Mortgage stress relief

Wealth Management sale key for Perpetual debt

Mike Taylor 2 March 2026 No Comments

Research and ratings house, Morningstar says sale of the Wealth Management business is key to Perpetual Limited meaningfully lowering debt.