High-performing advice firms in Australia have a strong client conversion rate, according to Dimensional, and work quicker than global peers to onboard them and begin gen...
Attempts to simplify advice documentation are unlikely to succeed unless advisers are confident they can produce shorter documents without fear of regulatory penalisation...
Russell Investments has promoted its global chief investment strategist to an APAC role which will see him relocate from London to Sydney. ...
With only one month to go until the end of the financial year, are current adviser numbers on track to report a gain for 2024–25?...
Increased demand for private credit has boosted assets under management at MA Financial, and the firm is viewing an “enormous opportunity” to distribute the funds in the ...
Regal Partners is the latest Australian fund manager to explore overseas opportunities, forecasting offshore flows to “grow materially” in 2025....
Sydney wealth management firm Altus Financial has appointed a head of risk as the business strengthens its provision of risk advice....
A subsidiary of Australia’s second-largest advice licensee Count has successfully defended a class action in Federal Court regarding a self-managed superannuation fund....
Investment Trends has found there is a “significant advice gap” in the number of self-managed superannuation funds using a financial adviser, with trustees citing concern...
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of a Sydney-based advice firm, describing how it demonstrated “competency failures” in its activities. ...
After last month’s surprise hold, the Reserve Bank of Australia has announced its latest interest rate decision....
A professional year supervisor has been banned for five years after advice provided by his provisional relevant provider was deemed to be inappropriate, the first time th...
WT Financial’s Keith Cullen is eager for its Hubco initiative to see advice firms under its licence trade at multiples which are catching up to those UK and US financial ...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...