ADVISERS

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The roles of the adviser and licensee may need to be more clearly defined for the individual adviser registration regime to properly function. ...

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The number of advisers has slightly stabilised after a couple of busy weeks at the end of the financial year, with numbers looking more optimistic in the coming weeks, ac...

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Current environmental, social and governance funds that only screen out negative industries and are heavy on technology have “hamstrung” advisers looking for sustainable ...

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Registrations close today for the July exam but sitting next month would give advisers the opportunity to sit again in 2022 if they fail. ...

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The decrease in adviser roles number this week was almost twice as many as the loss of actual advisers at 100 and 53, respectively, due to double authorisations, accordin...

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The group that just acquired Sentry is looking to continue its expansion to become one of the biggest mid-tier independent financial planning groups by organic growth and...

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There are close to 700 advisers who have passed the FASEA exam but are listed as ‘ceased’ by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, according to data....

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Another 10 licensees chose to shut down, a move that represented a loss of a total of 17 adviser roles during a single week, according to HFS Consulting. ...

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Financial planning

Another eight licensees chose to close this week, which translated into a loss of 15 adviser roles, while the number of actual advisers continued to drop to 22,201. ...

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Advisers on maternity leave, paternity or otherwise looking to work part-time are being offered a flexible fee model by Centrepoint Alliance....

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Financial advisers can comfortably continue to provide clients with assistance around life insurance claims handling thanks to greater regulatory clarity provided by the ...

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More than 200 adviser roles have been lost year to date compared to 761 lost roles in the first quarter of 2020, according to HFS Consulting’s analysis. ...

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Advisers have said they would be unlikely to impose blanket bans on complex products but that making large allocations could affect their professional indemnity insurance...

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AMP Financial Planning has seen its adviser numbers drop below 800 this week, according to HFS Consulting....

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Salaried advisers may have fewer administrative headaches when compared to their self-employed counterparts but, ultimately, they do not legally own their clients. ...

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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...

4 days 6 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....

9 months 1 week ago

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. ...

8 months 4 weeks 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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