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With private equity players taking an interest in acquiring Australian financial planning businesses, what are these firms prioritising when evaluating a potential target...
Financial planning
Financial services firm Link Wealth has purchased a majority stake in a Hobart-based advice business, its latest move as it makes a strategic expansion across the country...
Financial planning
The Financial Services and Credit Panel has cancelled the registration of an NSW adviser for two years as it felt he displayed a ‘level of incompetence’ in providing advi...
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. ...
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