profitability

Financial planning

Balancing client fees and operating costs to avoid the ‘58% club’

While the advice profession struggles under growing operating costs, Adviser Ratings has found more than half of practices – some 58 per cent – that generate less than $2...

Financial planning

Large AFSLs see significant growth amid advice consolidation

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 planning

Client profitability key as advisers navigate growing cost to serve

The days of financial advisers being “all things to all people” are behind us, according to this founder, as the cost to serve passes $4,000....

Financial planning

The key features of advice practices growing their profitability

Those financial advice practices which are seeing the strongest profitability and revenue growth share four similar characteristics in how they run their businesses. ...

Financial planning

Lifting revenue per client tops advisers’ priority list

Increasing revenue per client is a strategic priority for over half of financial advice businesses, a new report has found, with documented processes being a key way to a...

Financial planning

What makes a top advice leader?

For financial advisers and business owners seeking to run a top advice firm, Adviser Ratings has shared the characteristics of these leaders from top firms focusing on “s...

Financial planning

The ‘recipe for success’ of highly profitable advice firms

Financial advice practices with high profit margins charge annual client fees of $7,700 and keep their operational costs low, says Investment Trends’ Irene Guiamatsia....

Financial planning

Adviser tech adoption drives higher profitability

Over seven in 10 financial advice practices that embrace technology are enjoying profits above 10 per cent, compared to just 43 per cent of firms that have not done so....

Financial planning

Higher client fees lead to higher profitability for self-licensed advisers

Self-licensed advisers are most likely to have seen their profit margins increase over the past 12 months, according to research by Investment Trends, as fees increase fo...

Financial planning

Staff numbers down and profitability up at advice firms

With advice practices recording a slight uplift in profitability after years of decline, Business Health has outlined five key trends contributing to the change. ...

Funds management

VanEck to launch new ETF

VanEck is set to launch its Vectors China New Economy ETF on the Australian Securities Exchange in November....