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Financial Standard Podcast — 200 episodes
Paving the way for the future of advice
Keeping it simple: Complex life and financial advice
The next-gen client
An adviser's private market playbook
Passing the baton
Preparing clients for Div 296
Untapped resource: Superannuation fund advice
Structural change underway: Digging into SMSFs’ outperformance
Sailing into financial advice
Keeping calm during the storm
Family businesses, legacies and financial advice
ESG in 2026: Evolution or revolution?
The rising tide of regulatory red tape for advisers in 2026
The re-emergence of emerging markets
Cool and calm: Alternatives outlook
AI boom, bubble worries and the road ahead
Heightened demand continues to turbocharge Australian fixed income in 2026
Potential speed humps for private credit in 2026
Financial advice: Confidence in the future
AI and what lies beyond the known path (2025 Rewind)
A strong year so far for private credit (2025 Rewind)
What you need to know about crypto in 2025
How did Australian equities perform in 2025?
The rise and rise of alternatives
The best-performing asset class since 2010
LICs vs. LITs: Same but very different
Dissecting advice opportunities in different sectors: medical professionals
Are global equities in a bubble?
Navigating the Private Credit Boom: Opportunities and Challenges for Investors
Moving beyond a ‘member’ experience
Outlook for the RBA
Founder-led companies: A cut above?
The technical side of AI, technology investments
What will the big regulatory issues of 2025 prove to be?
It’s a wrap: Reporting season FY25
The industry that soared through bumpy turbulence
Volatile US policies open doors for emerging markets
There is more than just long-term vision in dividend investing
Private equity: The allure of Aussie wealth managers
Profits and pints: Investing in Aussie pubs as alternative assets
Sky high: America’s dizzying debt level
AI and what lies beyond the known path
Embracing AI in investments
Gaming industry presents unique investment opportunity
The investment vehicle capturing advisers’ client inflows
Investment market state of play amid the fog of war
Clearing the air: What are managed accounts?
Longevity in financial advice: The secret sauce
A strong year so far for private credit
Ready to scale: Active ETFs
High yield is misunderstood by investors
Market volatility and the lessons from the past
Payday super and the impact on small business
Unpacking the most critical reforms for the financial advice profession
Sensitive client conversations
Are investment consultants failing the not-for-profit sector?
The US exceptionalism in the modern world
Why now for active management in fixed income?
Small business success
Budget breakdown
Insights from the Minister for Financial Services
International Women’s Day: Accelerating Action with The Parenthood
Reporting season: A reality check on valuations
Super fund insurance claims is a ‘lottery’
Debunking myths about investment bonds
The case for financial advice in 2025
Macroeconomic outlook for 2025 - Fixed income
Outlook for private credit in 2025
Australian equities outlook for 2025
The macro outlook for 2025
How to stay relevant as a financial adviser
Why investing in processes reaps dividends
Super funds get in front of digital advice
Swing dynamics in full flow: 2025 and beyond
Young Aussies' mental health crisis and the economy
Making advice sexy again
Trump 2.0 and the outlook for equities
Busting retirement income myths
FS Power50: Using your influence for good
FS Power50: The power of influence
What does the Fed rate cut mean to investors?
How advisers can embrace social media
Doubling down on DEI
AUKUS: Making a splash on the economy
Insights from reporting season
Navigating opportunities and risks in Asian markets
Fund managers: Own up to your mistakes
Understanding crypto in SMSFs
The rise of fixed income solutions
Tokenisation: The Apple Pay of private markets
Why now might be the time to bet on emerging markets
Four more years with Trump?
Megatrends impacting financial advice
Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) tranche one in action
Global asset manager trends
Breaking down the government's final report on ASIC
Financial advice and behavioural finance
Demystifying hedge funds
The barriers facing wealthy women
Building a future proof portfolio
The false promise of super for homeownership
Rethinking wholesale investor tests
Foreign investors eye Down Under
The super for housing debate
Federal Budget analysis
Super evolution: Then, now and what’s to come
The outlook for emerging markets
What are the worrying trends in aged care advice?
Crypto replacing gold is ‘straightforward propaganda’
Advisers, retail investors size up private markets
The great consolidation: The future of Australia's super fund's
When will interest rates be cut?
Know your worth: Salary insights 2024
Farming assets in SMSFs
The younger generation's retirement roadmap
Recruitment outlook for 2024
Active vs. passive strategies: Who leads the pack?
Investment themes and opportunities in 2024
Precious lessons for investing in diamonds
The year of elections
What new regulation will affect advisers in 2024?
Superannuation: Performance, fees, and the retirement revolution
Australia’s luxury real estate gold rush
Mental health in financial services
Unpacking the economic impact of Australia's superannuation changes
Genetics still testing life sector
The outlook for bonds in 2024
The rise and rewards of impact investing
Discovering the active advantage in small and mid-caps
Where to fish for winners in a sea of small and mid-cap companies
Investing in global small and mid-caps today
Putting impact first
Exploring the global small and mid-caps universe
Hollywood havoc: Impacts beyond the screen
The Middle East and the markets
Why bonds remain relevant
The impact of payday super
REITs: From elite to defeat?
A case for Aussie agriculture
The future of advice
2023 performance test unpacked
China’s growth story remains
Breaking down the IGR
Longevity risk: Big super's big fail?
What the RBA refresh means for Australia
A prosperous pursuit: enhancing Indigenous financial literacy
The future of asset management
Shared equity - the next generation
Data is the new oil
A seller's market: Practice values rise
FY23 returns: Super doing what it's meant to
A work in progress
Simple advice, better outcomes?
No fear this EOFY
Battle of the biases
Debt disaster
What’s of interest amid high interest rates?
Mega-fund's mega blunder
Budget backlash
A brutal reminder
Adviser experience pathway shakeup
A growth in green
Not a stop sign
A unified voice
Combatting cyberwarfare
CALI: The voice for life insurers
Spotlight on SBV
Women at the top means more in the end
Mind the gap: Do super tax changes mean anything for women?
Super shakeup
Material change
The rise of managed accounts
Recruitment update 2023: Advice
Navigating the storm: What financial advisers need to know about today’s economic climate
A case for fixed income in 2023
Equities outlook for 2023 with Ben Powell
Full circle
Sowing the seeds
We get it: Levy
Comfortable in your own skin
An empathetic edge
The UK bond crisis explained
PWC Chief Economist Amy Auster shares her budget predictions
A call to action
Investing in the infrastructure
Fundamental change
How to create and communicate a decarbonisation strategy
Integrating ESG in fixed income
What is authentic ESG integration?
Seeking the truth behind net zero ambitions
Emerging market debt - finally a time for optimism?
Supply chain chaos: adding another 'S' to ESG?
Wayfinding for ethical investment
Crypto and super: weighing the opportunities
COP26: challenges, opportunities and risks for Australia
How beneficial are super fund mergers really?
What DDO means for Y-O-U
Your Future, Your Super and that letter
Fixing financial advice: too little too late?
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