Centrepoint Alliance has upgraded its expected financial results for FY24, thanks to strong adviser recruitment and the acquisition of Queensland advice firm Financial Ad...
With 66 per cent of newly established advice licensees being sole advisers, what are the risks and legal ramifications to consider when taking the plunge into self-licens...
A new advice licensee set up by former WT Financial advisers has helped financial adviser numbers return above the 15,600 mark this week....
Single adviser-led firms continue to expand their footprint in the Australian advice ecosystem, Adviser Ratings research shows, as market conditions prove favourable for ...
Link Advice chief executive, Duncan McPherson, is to depart after six years as the business restructures....
With the highest number of candidates in a year sitting the latest financial advice exam, a surge of new entrants are expected in the coming weeks, according to Wealth Da...
In an open letter, Sequoia chief executive Garry Crole has hit out against shareholders “with a personal axe to grind” as he fights for his job ahead of an EGM....
Shaw and Partners co-CEO, Earl Evans, reflects on the advice firm’s decade-long success story and why fostering a quality work culture sits at the heart of the business....
Sequoia shareholders are due to hold a vote regarding the removal of chief executive Garry Crole and are looking to appoint the chair of a rival licensee in his place on ...
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of a Brisbane advice firm in order to protect the interest of potential consumers as it feared the firm would breach financial services laws. ...
Sequoia Financial Group has seen a top-level reshuffle as the chair of the board, John Larsen, steps down after five years in the position....
Research by Wealth Data has found exactly half the number of advisers who have worked at closed AFSLs in the current financial year remain on the ASIC FAR....
As a Federal Court judge notes the lack of experience held by the responsible manager of Lanterne Fund Services, Money Management explores what is required of the role. ...
Insignia Financial’s chief risk officer sheds light why the “multidimensional” risks of operating a financial advice licensee requires a holistic and curious approach....
With 4.2 financial advice firms expected to fail per year, what type of problems can occur that could cause a licensee or micro-AFSL to go under?...
I really can't see how getting rid of the safeguards with no other changes achieves anything at all. We're still the ea...
Nowhere else in the world do innocent bystanders have to pay for the losses incurred to investors due to failed business...
Yet everything states profitability is much higher in a larger practice. As a smaller planning practice it is a hard sl...