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Financial planning

Financial adviser numbers are “back in black” for the year to date, thanks to 50 new entrants joining the industry over the last four weeks....

Financial planning

A new advice licensee set up by former WT Financial advisers has helped financial adviser numbers return above the 15,600 mark this week....

Financial planning

Australia’s largest licensee has seen the biggest number of adviser losses over the past week, while the expected wave of new entrants has boosted overall adviser numbers...

Financial planning

With the highest number of candidates in a year sitting the latest financial advice exam, a surge of new entrants are expected in the coming weeks, according to Wealth Da...

Financial planning

Shaw and Partners co-CEO, Earl Evans, reflects on the advice firm’s decade-long success story and why fostering a quality work culture sits at the heart of the business....

Financial planning

A financial advice firm has seen a weekly decline of 10 advisers, with all moving to a new licensee, while Centrepoint Alliance continues its “growth story”....

Financial planning

Research by Wealth Data has found exactly half the number of advisers who have worked at closed AFSLs in the current financial year remain on the ASIC FAR....

Financial planning

Two of Australia’s largest financial advice licensees, Count Financial and AMP Group, have each lost five advisers this week, while Sequoia has “bounced back” after recen...

Financial planning

With 4.2 financial advice firms expected to fail per year, what type of problems can occur that could cause a licensee or micro-AFSL to go under?...

Financial planning

With a weekly loss of 14 advisers led by declines at Count Financial, the financial advice industry has fallen below the 15,600 line....

Financial planning

Wealth Data has revealed which financial advice licensee has lost the greatest number of advisers this financial year-to-date, with the firm declining by 59 advisers over...

Financial planning

Wealth Data’s Colin Williams believes the idea of four financial advice firms failing per year, as put forward in CSLR estimates, is too low an estimate....

Financial planning

Insignia Financial is holding ‘relatively steady’ onto its rank as Australia’s second-largest financial advice licensee after the Godfrey Pembroke exit but Count is hot o...

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of a Sydney advice firm with the business having lost more than 30 advisers since the start of 2024, accordin...

Financial planning

Wealth Data analysis has seen a “significant jump” in gross revenue per financial adviser at eight ASX-listed financial advice licensees, and detailed the range between h...

 

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By having trustees supervise client directed payments from their pension funds, Stephen Jones and the federal Labor gove...

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JOHN GILLIES

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