The Rask Group, in partnership with InvestSMART’s new investment platform, has announced three ETF strategies, aimed at empowering financial advisers to create and manage...
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....
As a Federal Court judge notes the lack of experience held by the responsible manager of Lanterne Fund Services, Money Management explores what is required of the role. ...
AFCA has confirmed that Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Solutions has extended its membership, allowing victims to continue to make complaints....
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...
Fortnum Private Wealth CEO, Neil Younger, says scale is becoming a necessity rather than a benefit for financial advice licensees as it focuses on organic growth via lice...
Ahead of the Responsible Investment Association Australia annual conference in May, Zenith Investment Partners' Dugald Higgins shares his thoughts on the evolving sector ...
The Federal Court has issued a seven-figure penalty against Lanterne Fund Services, a wholesale licensee which operated as a ‘licensee for hire’. ...
Insignia Financial’s chief risk officer sheds light why the “multidimensional” risks of operating a financial advice licensee requires a holistic and curious approach....
The top salaries for financial advisers have risen by more than a third in the past year in one state, according to recruitment firm Robert Walters....
Findex has announced private equity firm Mercury Capital will acquire a 40 per cent stake in the company from KKR as it seeks to triple in size in the next five years....
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?...
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...