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2023 has been a year of mergers and acquisitions for licensees as firms take advantage of the improved landscape for financial advisers. ...

Financial planning

AMP has revitalised its Jigsaw Advice Solutions business to provide expanded add-on services to self-licensed financial advisers, ranging from AFSL setup to revenue manag...

Financial planning

Two advice licensees have lost more than 26 per cent in their share price since the start of 2023, while another has seen gains of 35 per cent. ...

Financial planning

With Insignia’s sale of Millennium3 expected to see 140 advisers moving over to WT Financial by mid-December, this could cause a shift in which licensee closes out the ye...

Financial planning

Money Management reviews the total number of financial advisers active with appointments or resignations throughout November, as Wealth Data reports another 75 changing l...

Financial planning

An emerging debate has looked at whether self-licensed firms should be differentiated by virtue of their scale compared to institutional licensees and dealer groups when ...

Financial planning

ASIC has indicated its disappointment that “little improvement” has been made on the reportable situation regime but financial advice breaches have declined over the year...

Financial planning

Advice licensees are opening faster than they are closing, and licensee owners with less than 20 advisers have grown by over 200 since the start of the year, new figures ...

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The number of profitable practices channelling their time, capital and resources into self-licensed ventures is on the rise, a trend which larger licensees are observing ...

Financial planning

The financial group has announced the acquisition of a Melbourne-based planning firm servicing Millennials, less than a year since acquiring Affinia-licensed Master Your ...

Financial planning

Following a 73 per cent pass rate in the August financial adviser exam, the highest since ASIC took over its administration, a high number of new entrants have joined the...

Financial planning

Money Management crunches the numbers on ASIC’s data on Australian financial services licence approvals and how it compares over the last three years....

Financial planning

The firm’s licensee services business was a “standout” despite weaker results in FY23, says CEO Garry Crole, with attracting existing advisers a key focus in this financi...

Financial planning

Looking at changes in adviser numbers since H2 2021 in terms of appointments and resignations, research reveals just two licensee groups report a net positive change....

Financial planning

Insignia CEO, Renato Mota, has told Money Management why the firm’s new partnership model will free up the firm’s time to work with super fund members....

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