There are three things to consider if any advice firms want to consider working with outsourced asset consultants, according to Mason Stevens’ chief investment officer, Jacqueline Fernley. The 2022 Adviser Landscape Report from Adviser R...
Commission changes, premium increases, and profitability fears have driven risk advisers out of the profession or into new advice careers, says Adviser Ratings. During 2020–22, risk advisers were between 2.4 and 2.5 times more likely to ...
Adviser Ratings’ wealth data and sentiment business ARdata announced its completed acquisition of investment and superannuation system ProductRex. With ARdata taking full ownership of the platform, ProductRex’s founder, Nick Topham, would...
Super and platform comparison tool ProductRex has been acquired by Adviser Ratings. The software was launched nearly two years ago by digital specialist Nick Topham, who operated it as a one1-person business. It grew significantly and now...
Australia’s leading wealth data and sentiment business, ARdata, has today announced it has completed the acquisition of ProductRex, the hugely popular investment, platform, and superannuation recommendation modelling tool for financial adv...
In the wake of the global financial crisis, a prolonged period of low inflation and historically low interest rates followed. However, with inflation soaring and interest rates subsequently rising, advisers will now face the challenge of g...
Data published by Adviser Ratings in 2022 revealed average ongoing advice fees increased 41 per cent in the three years to 2021, from $2,510 to $3,529.
Speaking on a webcast hosted by the Financial Services Council (FSC) last week, Financial Services Minister Stephen Jones revealed that he would formulate the government’s response to the Quality of Advice Review (QAR) by early June. To c...
The chief executive officer of the Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA), Sarah Abood, has revealed that the life risk advice space is on the association’s advocacy agenda. Last year, research from Adviser Ratings showed that ther...