FINANCIAL ADVICE

Financial planning

The proportion of advisers working at a privately owned licensee rose to 78 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2024 as over 1,000 advisers left a diversified firm. ...

Financial planning

Advice around a client’s concessional contribution cap was the reason for the latest written direction by the Financial Services and Credit Panel....

Financial planning

National advice firm Coastal Advice Group has entered a long-term strategic partnership with New York-based Merchant Wealth Partners to accelerate its expansion....

Financial planning

FSC chief executive, Blake Briggs, believes the regulatory pendulum has “swung too far” over the last decade when it comes to financial advice, and it is appropriate to r...

Financial planning

The levy payable by financial advisers for the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort has almost quadrupled for FY26 as the government launches a formal review....

Financial planning

Melbourne and Perth-based Endeavor Asset Management has added 24 financial advisers to its AFSL this week, with overall industry numbers rising by more than a dozen....

Financial planning

Australian advised clients are the most eager among global peers to invest in private markets, according to Hamilton Lane, with their knowledge of the asset class also be...

Funds management

The widespread use of alternatives could lead to erosion of the very elements that make them alternatives, according to EY, as fund managers make them more palatable to r...

Financial planning

With Finchley & Kent coming in second place for adviser growth in 2024, its managing director shares why word-of-mouth referrals have been critical to its success....

Financial planning

Advice veteran Paul Harding-Davis is to step down from Brisbane licensee AdviceIQ Partners after eight years, and the business has appointed a new general manager. ...

Financial planning

Stellan Capital’s new CEO Jim DeCarlo says he will use his US experience to organically double the firm’s assets to $2 billion within 18 months, and believes overseas PE ...

Financial planning

Brisbane-based Wealth Architects has announced two acquisitions as it continues its path into regional Australia and branches out into life insurance. ...

Financial planning

Numbers are in for 2024, with Wealth Data confirming how many advisers left during the calendar year and which business models saw the largest growth in terms of new lice...

Financial planning

New adviser and licensee relationships have helped Netwealth to expand its business pipeline in the latest quarter as it reports $4.5 billion in quarterly inflows....

Financial planning

With regional and rural suburbs exhibiting high spare capacity to invest, Money Management speaks to three regional advisers on the opportunities beyond the major cities ...

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