by Ravi Verma
There’s little doubt that the increasing costs of delivering financial advice, due in part to increasing regulation and qualification regimes, is a bigger roadblock than ever. If financial planners aren’t in a position to provide advice to people…
by Adviser Ratings
The restructuring of the advice industry is having a profound effect on many advisers, making them re-evaluate their role in the industry’s future. AMP’s freshly announced restructure and strategy looks to technology as as alternative to…
by Adviser Ratings
Adviser Ratings' CEO, Mark Hoven will be presenting at this year's ASX financial adviser workshops discussing financial sector trends in the coming weeks, starting this Friday in Sydney. He will reveal the latest feedback from over 1,000 individual…
by Adviser Ratings
Adviser Ratings Marketplace initiative will be launching soon, providing advisers with access to the results of our recent Marketplace survey. We will list advisers’ own ratings of providers to the industry. Advisers will be able to see how these…
by Adviser Ratings
In an update of its assets under management issued to the Australian Securities Exchange recently, AMP revealed that it had experienced record net outflows from its wealth management business. While the group struggles contain damage to its…
by Peter Horsfield
Platinum adviser Peter Horsfield says if you read the media and industry headlines, you'll read that thousands of financial advisers are currently running for the door. Now is a very difficult time for the financial planning industry. Indeed, the…
by Adviser Ratings
In our recently published Musical Chairs report on adviser movements in the industry, we identified that the overall industry shrank by 3% in terms of total number of authorised representatives. However, we can reveal here that this drain was offset…
by Scott Shuttleworth
What do we yield from the yield curve? If you're an avid reader of The Australian Financial Review, CNBC or really any mainstream financial publication, you would be well aware of the recent commentary about the inverted yield curve and its ability…
by Peter Jordan
Many people think they have enough insurance cover from their already existing superannuation insurance. However, as the following example shows, some types of insurance in some funds are not what they seem. When it's your future, it's good to be…