Editorial
In-depth editorial for Australian financial advisers — technical explainers, CPD-eligible pieces and specialist deep-dives.
A decade of tax
Treasury opened consultation on the second tranche of the CGT and negative gearing reforms on 4 August. Submissions closed on 21 August. There are further tranches to come.
The register is recovering. The profession is not.
Adviser numbers have risen for five straight weeks. That is the least useful number in financial advice, and the industry keeps reporting it as though it were the most.
The scheme is working. The funding model is not.
Advisers are about to pay for a third round of failures they had no part in. Defending the levy's design has become indefensible, and defending compensation itself remains essential.
Twelve years late, but welcome: the SMSF residential borrowing ban
The prohibition on new residential LRBAs commences Monday. The policy is right. The process that delivered it, and the drafting it left behind, deserve less applause.
Give AI the Job Nobody Wants
I bet two years of my life companies would let AI do the work they value. They did not. Here's why I think advice will be the last job AI takes.
Four reasons to invest in emerging markets
Structuring retirement drawdowns on platform
A practical CPD piece on modelling decumulation and evidencing suitability — produced by HUB24.