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...
Rising advice fees has prompted Radar Results to increase its price guide to a minimum of $3,000 per client to reflect the changing shape of the adviser landscape....
Advice practices with up-to-date business plans are twice as likely to achieve high profitability, according to Adviser Ratings, but getting stuck in development mode can...
According to Adviser Ratings, financial advice firms must ensure they think strategically about the use of offshore or third-party operations rather than just consider th...
The financial advice profession has reached a period of relative stability, according to Adviser Ratings, enabling industry participants to prepare for the incoming silve...
Only a third of Australians are willing to pay more than $500 for advice, thousands of dollars behind what advisers need to charge just to stay in business....
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...