The head of one of Australia’s largest licensees has shared the top characteristics that he looks for in creating a successful advice practice as more and more firms prov...
Business and practice development managers believe they are stretched too thin in working with high volumes of financial advisers and are dissatisfied with their roles an...
The Federal Court has ruled financial advice licensee RM Capital failed to take reasonable steps to prevent its authorised representative from accepting conflicted remune...
NextGen Financial Group has bid farewell to its remaining financial advisers following ASIC’s cancellation of its AFSL, contrasting the firm’s peak of over 100 advisers i...
Centrepoint Alliance has shared details on the progress of fees for no service remediation, having conducted an assessment of its employed and self-employed advisers. ...
The merger between Count and Diverger, first announced in September, has completed to create Australia’s second-largest licensee with over 550 advisers. ...
All eyes are now on ASIC as licensees await how the regulator will use the internal dispute resolution regime data submitted as the deadline is reached....
With three years of M&A activity under its belt, WT Financial reflects on its recent acquisition of Millennium3 from Insignia and says it is now well positioned to achiev...
ASIC has successfully obtained orders to bankrupt finfluencer Tyson Scholz for his failure to pay Federal Court costs of more than $450,000....
The number of ultra-high-net-worth individuals in Australia is expected to swell 27 per cent by 2028, according to Knight Frank’s annual Wealth Report, and they are looki...
As NextGen sees its Australian financial services licence cancelled by ASIC, Money Management tracks how an AFCA complaint led to the firm falling into liquidation. ...
The restructure of abrdn’s Australian operations has been cited as a measure by the asset manager which enabled it to cut $198 million from its investment business, leadi...
My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...
Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...
How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...