Artificial intelligence (AI) has quietly moved from buzzword to backbone in financial services. Whether you notice it or not, AI is already shaping how your super fund flags unusual activity, how your bank detects fraud, manages risk, and interacts with customers and increasingly, how financial advice itself gets built. The question isn’t whether AI belongs … Read more
Wick Financial has been named 2026 Wealth Management Business of the Year and Innovator of the Year, Financial Advice at the Australian Wealth Management Awards.
Ask a dozen people why they haven’t started investing, paid off their credit card, or topped up their super, and you’ll get a dozen different answers. But they usually trace back to the same thing: how they feel about money, not what they know about it. Behavioural finance calls this your “money personality,” and understanding … Read more
There’s something genuinely positive about the rise of financial content on social media. Money was, for a long time, a topic shrouded in silence, shame, and exclusivity. Anything that gets Australians talking about budgeting, investing, and superannuation is, in principle, a good thing. The problem is what’s getting mixed in with the good stuff. The … Read more
She manages a lot. Work, family, probably someone else’s schedule before her own. And underneath all of it, a quiet financial worry she hasn’t quite found the time to deal with. That feeling is real. And it’s far more common than most women let on. Australian women report higher financial stress than men across every … Read more
What ASIC’s New Research Really Tells Us About Retirement in Australia I’ve been a financial planner for long enough to know that the scariest thing isn’t having too little super. It’s not knowing your current financial position. That thought came back to me when I read the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) latest research. … Read more
Most of us left school knowing how to calculate the area of a triangle. Very few of us left school knowing how superannuation compounding works, how to read a credit card statement, or what a reasonable emergency fund looks like. That gap has consequences. Research from UNSW has found that people with limited financial knowledge … Read more
There’s a particular kind of financial anxiety that didn’t really exist a decade ago. It’s the feeling you get when you see someone on Instagram has just renovated their kitchen, someone on TikTok is posting from Amalfi, and someone on LinkedIn has just announced they’ve paid off their mortgage at 34. All before you’ve finished … Read more
“Do I really need a financial planner?” Most people assume financial planners exist to pick winning investments. In reality, that’s a small fraction of what we do, and often not the most valuable part. Think of a great financial planner less like a stockbroker, and more like a trusted architect for your financial circumstances: someone … Read more
Everyone slips up Whether it’s a forgotten tax bill, a credit card that quietly spiralled, a poorly timed investment, or raiding your superannuation when you really didn’t need to. Financial mistakes are a universal human experience. The good news? A stumble doesn’t have to become a fall. The most common culprits The financial errors we … Read more