Adviser Ratings has revealed almost 400 advisers joined the FAR in the third quarter but, with just seven weeks to go until the education deadline, more than 1,000 could ...

While specialist advice firms have become an increasingly popular business model in recent years, industry analysis reveals whether there are financial benefits to be gai...

Financial advice practices need to combine both their professional skills and credibility with digital access if they wish to compete with finfluencers for younger client...

While the advice profession struggles under growing operating costs, Adviser Ratings has found more than half of practices – some 58 per cent – that generate less than $2...

While the profession continues to see consolidation at the top, Adviser Ratings has compared the business models of Insignia and Entireti and how they are shaping the pro...

Outflows have doubled in the property and infrastructure space to $1.3 billion with advisers instead favouring private markets as Morningstar data finds active property f...

A quarter of advisers who commenced on the FAR within the last two years have already switched licensees or practices, adding validity to practice owners’ professional ye...

The shift in scale and consolidation has led to substantial growth in large privately owned licensees, which have tipped past 20 per cent of advisers for the first time t...

Financial advice has an important role to play in navigating family discussions around inheritance, according to CFS, with younger generations expecting a windfall of mor...

Platform-based superannuation funds are beating out industry fund models when it comes to adviser satisfaction, with service quality playing a key role in advisers’ decis...

Adviser Ratings has argued that it’s time for more advisers to utilise digital engagement tools available to them as a disconnect grows between consumers seeking advice f...

Going forwards, advisers’ use of platforms will be divided into those “core” offerings and “peripheral” ones, with those in the latter category facing an existential thre...

Two advice platforms have been identified by Adviser Ratings as standouts for efficiency as time-pressured advisers become evermore fickle in their platform selection. ...

Traditional relationships between advisers and business development managers are evolving, with the expectations for them to provide meaningful guidance to the advice pra...