The head of one of Australia’s largest licensees has shared the top characteristics that he looks for in creating a successful advice practice as more and more firms prov...
With three years of M&A activity under its belt, WT Financial reflects on its recent acquisition of Millennium3 from Insignia and says it is now well positioned to achiev...
WT Financial Group managing director, Keith Cullen, believes the current M&A activity in financial advice is long overdue, having been accused of “running into a burning ...
An emerging debate has looked at whether self-licensed firms should be differentiated by virtue of their scale compared to institutional licensees and dealer groups when ...
Advice firms should be targeting as much as $700,000 per annum per adviser in ongoing advice fees as clients could be willing to pay higher advice fees than advisers are ...
WT Financial is expecting to see a 130 per cent increase in net profit after tax, as it releases indicative results for FY22–23, and CEO Keith Cullen believes the outlook...
The financial services firm has posted a 55% increase in operating profit after 'streamlining and integrating' its acquisition strategy....
Further acquisitions remain a possibility for WT Financial as it finalises the integration of Synchron, Sentry and Wealth Today and announces its full-year results....
Synchron chair, Michael Harrison, is to retire as the firm acquires WT Financial Group with the firm thanking him for his contribution to financial services....
WT Financial Group’s acquisition of Synchron will improve efficiencies for advisers, according to chief executive Keith Cullen, as it creates the third-largest financial ...
WT Financial Group, the ASX-listed parent of Wealth Today, has acquired Australia’s largest privately-owned financial adviser group, Synchron for $7.96 million. ...
The accounting for one-off write-downs and provisions of $2.89 million have contributed to a net profit after tax loss of $3.28 million....
Oksana Patron writes how recent acquisitions position former mid-tier financial planning groups higher up the ranks in terms of financial adviser numbers....
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...
Despite 400 new entrants doing their professional year, this number is far below what is required to sustain the industry....
My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...
Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...
How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...