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Deploying alternatives: A practical framework for advisers

1 month ago | insideadviser.com.au | James Dunn |Drew Meredith |James DunnJames

One of the biggest challenges in alternative investing is defining what qualifies as an alternative. Traditional asset classes—equities, bonds, and cash—are well understood, but alternatives encompass a wide array of investments that defy simple categorisation.
An alternatives lens: What to do with a problem like liquidity?

1 month ago | insideadviser.com.au | James Dunn |Jamie Nemtsas |Drew Meredith |James DunnJames

The dominance of private credit, the resurgence of hedge funds, and the search for new sources of diversification have sparked intense debate. Should investors embrace illiquidity for the sake of higher returns? How do they distinguish genuine innovation from opportunistic band-wagoning? A shifting investment landscapeAndrew Garrett, investment director at Perpetual Private, reflects on the unexpected resilience of markets over the past two years.
50 for 50: a journey through advice and investment

1 month ago | insideadviser.com.au | Jamie Nemtsas |Drew Meredith

I turn 50 this year. I know – many of you will be shocked. Surely someone so full of energy, wit, and devastating good looks couldn’t possibly be hitting the half-century mark? But it’s true. And instead of dwelling on it, I’m embracing it. I’m celebrating by doing 50 things for 50 – new experiences, new places, new challenges. One of those is traveling to different parts of the world to understand how financial advice is evolving globally.
SMSF sector's 'rude health' has the setting to get even ruder, conference told

2 months ago | insideadviser.com.au | Kevin Pelham |Drew Meredith

SMSF specialist advisers must have been pinching themselves at last week’s SMSF Association’s National Conference Thought Leadership Breakfast, on hearing industry doyens tell how their superannuation sector was in “rude health.” Association CEO Peter Burgess and Heffron Consulting managing director Meg Heffron, two of the most respected people in the sector, waxed lyrical about its strengths and why it heralded such a promising future for SMSFs – and the advisers who service many of the more...
Illegal SMSF access a problem, but focus on the bigger super picture

2 months ago | insideadviser.com.au | Kevin Pelham |Drew Meredith |James Dunn

The advice industry had a critical role to play in combatting the “scourge” of illegal early access that had the potential to threaten the fabric of self-managed super funds, SMSF Association CEO Peter Burgess told National Conference delegates in Melbourne this week.
New Calvary John James Hospital exemplifies Barwon’s healthcare expertise

2 months ago | insideadviser.com.au | James Dunn |James DunnJames

Barwon Investment Partners’ Healthcare Property Fund speaks in its marketing material of how it focuses on specialist healthcare assets, and the differentiated investment exposure these offer, resulting in low correlation with other property sectors. This suits an investor looking for a truly defensive holding, says the fund manager, with Australia’s growing and ageing population driving strong demand for healthcare services, demand that is largely unaffected by the economic cycle.
Why a regional base is a 'superpower' for this advice firm

2 months ago | insideadviser.com.au | Tahn Sharpe |Abbey Minogue

Kane Leersen certainly doesn’t buy into the concept that operating in a regional city is a hindrance for a professional services firm. “It’s the other way around,” he says. “Being regionally based is a superpower, because you’re part of a community.”By background, Leersen is a fifth-generation shearer from the tiny western Victorian locality of Yeo, just outside the town of Colac, 150 kilometres south-west of Melbourne.
Viola nabs high-profile family office adviser Angus Mann

2 months ago | insideadviser.com.au | Abbey Minogue |Tahn Sharpe

The movement of advisers at the top end continues, with Viola Private Wealth adding another high-profile adviser to its ranks less than two months after bringing on rugby league personality Cooper Cronk to attract wealthy athlete clients. This week Viola announced the signing of Angus Mann from Mutual Trust, the country’s largest multi-family office. Mann keeps a low profile but is well respected in family office circles and carried a client book worth close to $500 million at Mutual Trust.
Data and technology the key growth (and risk) areas for advice in 2025: EY

2 months ago | insideadviser.com.au | Tahn Sharpe |Abbey Minogue

While the shift to artificial intelligence, better data integration and overall optimisation of technology in advice practices is predicted to be a growth driver in 2025, the same areas may also be the greatest source of risk according to prognostications from Rita Da Silva, Oceana wealth and asset management leader at professional services firm EY.
FAAA slams 'almighty go-slow' on CSLR/Dixons inquiry

2 months ago | insideadviser.com.au | Tahn Sharpe |Abbey Minogue

The Financial Advice Association has urged the government’s advisory body to speed up work on its scheduled inquiry into the Dixons Advisory scandal and associated cost blowouts in the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort. Last year Treasury announced that an inquiry and report into the CSLR and “challenges to its ongoing sustainability”, with particular reference to the Dixon Advisory collapse, would be handed in by the Economics References Committee by the last sitting day of March.