With the self-licensing trend here to stay, what are the estimated costs and insurance risks for financial advisers operating their own AFSL without the backing of a larg...
A national financial advice firm is targeting advisers looking to leave large licensees and providing them with tools and financial backing to run their own business....
An equity partner firm of Count has acquired a Victorian accounting and financial planning business for $2.1 million, following its first M&A deal in February....
With the end-of-financial-year adviser gains and losses finalised, how does this year’s movement affect the ranking of the top three licensees?...
National advice group Bombora Advice has appointed David Mounsey in the newly created role of business growth and development manager to drive future growth, particularly...
Three months since Godfrey Pembroke officially exited Insignia Financial’s institutional AFSL, Money Management speaks with CEO Mark Fisher on his path to becoming an adv...
With the 2023–24 financial year behind us, Money Management takes a look back on the financial advice licensees that were hit with enforcement action by ASIC in the past ...
The Australian Wealth Advisors Group has made its first equity partnership scheme investment into a Victorian financial planning firm as it forecasts multiple deals ahead...
Sequoia Financial Group has announced it is restructuring its business following a shareholder dispute which will see it reduce headcount by 10 per cent....
Some 41 per cent of financial advisers say they have no conflicts of interest in their business, according to Holley Nethercote, indicating a fundamental lack of understa...
ASIC has obtained interim orders from the Federal Court to freeze the assets of a Melbourne advice licensee in order to protect investor funds amid an ongoing investigati...
ASIC has reminded AFSLs they have just three business days until obligations come into force to notify ASIC of an adviser accessing the experience pathway within 30 days,...
A group of licensees have put together a petition calling on the government to fix major issues around the CSLR levy and Delivering Better Financial Outcomes legislation....
Compliance experts have warned there is potential for the experience pathway to be abused if licensees fail to check whether an individual has the necessary 10 years’ exp...
From cyber security threats to external reviews, financial services law firm Holley Nethercote has uncovered the most notable compliance concerns for AFSLs....
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....