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The number nobody tells you: why your fund's return isn't your return
Morningstar’s investor return gap shows fund returns and investor returns diverge, and advisers should measure both time-weighted and money-weighted outcomes.
The journey of an accidental ethicist
Some executives measure a career in turnarounds: the worst-performing region, handed over almost as a dare, turned within months into the best. Tony Beaven has...
Who gets your client's super when a stepchild is in the picture?
Death benefits for blended families are no longer decided by financial dependency alone. Karen Robinson of Equity Trustees explains how AFCA now weighs ongoing...
Trust tax: the election that asks families to freeze the future
Treasury's minimum tax on discretionary trusts offers a fixed entitlements election as the cheap way out of restructuring. Advisers Will Hamilton and Troy...
Retirement income: Australia taught a generation to save, not to spend
More than 250,000 Australians retire each year with no training in turning a balance into retirement income. Challenger's new Institute for Lifetime Income is...
July 2027 deadline: ten months to get the CGT cost base right
Australia's CGT reforms take effect on 1 July 2027, and clients are already moving without waiting for advice. Viridian Lending's launch into the same moment...
Don't sell the farm: the risk hiding in most farming wills
An equal-split will can force a farming family to sell the property just to pay departing children. Troy Armstrong explains why farm succession planning, done...
CPA Australia's case for a better start-up CGT concession
CPA Australia supports Treasury's proposed capital gains tax concession for start-up investors but warns design flaws will leave investors, employees and...
Why most inherited wealth does not survive the second generation
The research is clear: most Australian family wealth transfer fails not because of bad markets, but because of poor governance and a lack of preparation. Here...
Military precision, human judgement and AI at scale
How Dexter Koh is bringing the discipline of military planning to an integrated model of advice, education and continuous wealth intelligence.
Purchasing power is not CPI, and cash is not one currency
Advisers treat “purchasing power” as returns above CPI and “cash” as Australian dollars on deposit. Both shortcuts understate the risk retirees...
Inside the property sector where healthcare demand is doing the heavy lifting
As traditional office struggles for relevance, US medical office buildings offer advisers a cleaner story of income resilience, demographic growth and...
After the loss comes the paperwork. It doesn't have to be this hard.
North has become the first wealth platform to join the estateXchange network, offering advisers a digital solution to simplify deceased estate administration...
Numerisk closes SMSF trustee exposure gap with Defender policy
The regulatory requirements on SMSFs are onerous, but they're not often considered in the decision to establish one. A new insurance product aims to protect...