asset consultants

Funds management

Managed account consultants seen as valuable asset for advisers

The acquisition of Evidentia Group by GDG shows how valuable the role and personal relationship with a managed account consultant has become to the financial advice indus...

Financial planning

What to consider when hiring an asset consultant

Speaking to Money Management, Mason Stevens’ CIO, Jacqueline Fernley, has discussed the three key things advisers need to consider when working with an outsourced asset c...

Policy & Regulation

Without legal definition assets consultants are in the clear

Financial advisers may be significantly constrained in using the term “independent” but asset consultants are largely in the clear because asset consultation is not a leg...

Financial planning

Are asset consultants caught in the same ‘independent’ trap as financial advisers?

Questions are being asked about whether the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been wrong to treat asset consultants differently to financial advisers i...