With financial advisers on the government’s skills shortage list this year, could an influx of advisers coming from overseas help to bolster these numbers and how difficult is the transition?
With Insignia Financial chief executive Renato Mota announcing he will depart in February 2024, Money Management takes a look at his five years in the leading role.
Advice licensees are opening faster than they are closing, and licensee owners with less than 20 advisers have grown by over 200 since the start of the year, new figures from Wealth Data show.
Insignia Financial chief executive, Renato Mota, has announced he will step down from the company after 20 years with the business.
ASIC has updated its reportable situations regime to remove the need for licensees to submit breach notifications for certain misleading or deceptive conduct breaches.
After a period of consolidation, platform experts are considering whether the market will now see the beginning of new entrants joining the space.
The declining volume of risk advisers meant KPMG has found a rising lapse rate for insurance policies arranged by independent financial advisers, particularly in the TPD and death cover space.
The Financial Advice Association of Australia has appointed two Sydney-based advisers and one Gold Coast-based adviser to its board, effective 20 November 2023.
A strategic focus on advisers has seen inflows from financial advisers to AMP’s North platform increase by 17 per cent in Q3 but total platform net cashflow has declined by 43 per cent.
Seeking to help their loved ones achieve greater financial security through an inheritance, Australians are increasingly looking to advisers for estate planning and engaging the next generation, according to research.
