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The restructure of Insignia Financial’s advice network into two parts could lead to further adviser attrition than initially forecast if advisers shun the salaried model,...

Financial planning

As Insignia Financial looks to bolster its two financial advice businesses, Shadforth and Bridges, CEO Scott Hartley describes to Money Management how the firm will achie...

Financial planning

Insignia has announced it has changed the naming conventions used to describe its adviser channels, now divided into professional services, self-employed, and self-licens...

Financial planning

The number of advisers at Insignia Financial has fallen by 83 but the firm expects departures to stabilise by 1 July, 2022....

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Financial planning

This has been a tough week for IOOF given that the financial planning groups operating under its umbrella have topped the list for the highest declines in adviser numbers...

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Financial planning

An IOOF subsidiary, Bridges Financial Services Group, today announced to the Australian Securities Exchange that it would acquire Bendigo and Adelaide Bank’s financial pl...

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Financial planning

IOOF appears to have contained the fall-out from an end to grandfathering and threats to life/risk commissions because of its ‘self-employed advice model’....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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