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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...

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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...

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The Federal Court has ruled financial advice licensee RM Capital failed to take reasonable steps to prevent its authorised representative from accepting conflicted remune...

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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...

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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. ...

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The merger between Count and Diverger, first announced in September, has completed to create Australia’s second-largest licensee with over 550 advisers. ...

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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....

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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...

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ASIC has successfully obtained orders to bankrupt finfluencer Tyson Scholz for his failure to pay Federal Court costs of more than $450,000....

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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...

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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. ...

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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...

 

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

6 days 13 hours ago
Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

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A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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