WEALTH TRANSFER

Financial planning

Despite younger generations representing the largest group of potential inheritors, CoreData has discovered less than half of beneficiaries have professional advice to na...

Financial planning

Lower fees and trustworthiness are the top factors enticing unadvised Australians to seek a financial adviser, according to Fidelity International, common across all gene...

Financial planning

Praemium research has uncovered that less than one in 10 financial advice practices have a formal, documented intergenerational wealth transfer strategy in place....

Financial planning

With next-generation heirs unlikely to retain their family’s financial advisers after receiving an inheritance, Capgemini has explored how firms can work with younger gen...

Financial planning

With four in 10 advisers viewing the intergenerational wealth transfer as a threat to their practice, Business Health explores what to do when an established client relat...

Financial planning

Nearly half of financial advisers worldwide view the intergenerational wealth transfer as an existential threat, Natixis Investment Managers finds, as one-third say they ...

Financial planning

Clients are exhibiting multiple concerns on the intergenerational wealth transfer, making it imperative for advisers to address these fears through comprehensive strategi...

Financial planning

Australia’s looming intergenerational wealth transfer remains a crucial opportunity for financial advisers, with 14 per cent of consumers looking to transfer $1 million o...

Financial planning

Two reports have highlighted potential problems around the $4.9 trillion intergenerational wealth “tsunami”, particularly for women who are most likely to be a beneficiar...

Financial planning

AMP has launched a new estate planning offering across its financial advice network in response to client demand ahead of Australia’s looming intergenerational wealth tra...

Financial planning

Financial advisers who actively engage with their clients’ wealth transfer to their children are seeing greater client satisfaction and higher retention rates, Australian...

Financial planning

Almost 3,000 advice practices have closed their doors in the past five years, but there is a “renewed purpose and direction” for those who remain, says Adviser Ratings....

Financial planning

Seeking to help their loved ones achieve greater financial security through an inheritance, Australians are increasingly looking to advisers for estate planning and engag...

Financial planning

With the great wealth transfer looming alongside weakening financial literacy, an HLB wealth adviser urges families to engage in more financial discussions around legacy ...

Financial planning

Less than half of millennials and Gen-Z say they would be open to using a financial adviser in the future, according to Findex, despite $3.5 trillion expected to transfer...

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