KEITH CULLEN

Financial planning

Sharing his reasoning in joining the FSC board, WT Financial chief executive, Keith Cullen, believes “product and advice cannot be separated” from each other in the curre...

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

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 ...

Financial planning

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 ...

Financial planning

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 ...

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

The financial services firm has posted a 55% increase in operating profit after 'streamlining and integrating' its acquisition strategy....

People & Products

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....

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Financial planning

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....

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Financial planning

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 ...

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Financial planning

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. ...

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Financial planning

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....

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Features

Oksana Patron writes how recent acquisitions position former mid-tier financial planning groups higher up the ranks in terms of financial adviser numbers....

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Financial planning

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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