Industry Updates

AMP will struggle to match BT, Macquarie commission bans

Australia’s largest wealth management business, will find it hard to equal BT Financial Group and Macquarie’s ban on grandfathered fees, due to its structure.

Lack of diversity stunts reach of advice

If advisers remain focused on 50-year-old male clients, they won’t be doing themselves or the community any favours, two young advisers say. Growth requires broader representation.

A moveable feast: where advisers will land in 2019

Proposed bank spinoffs and disposals, along with the exit of a top-10 dealer group, have the industry in flux. Here’s what advice ownership could look like in 2019.

Experience should be worth more: AFA

There’s more to advising a client than can be learned in a classroom and FASEA’s standards should reflect that better, AFA chief executive Philip Kewin states.

Goodbye AUM: pay models in play

Charging a percentage of AUM is still the dominant model but changes in regulation and consumer expectations are giving rise to many alternatives, writes David Haintz.

Choose your next licensee carefully

There is a direct correlation between low adviser education, high adviser mobility, and disciplinary actions brought by ASIC, Adviser Ratings has found.

Netwealth leads upstarts in platform race

The institutional behemoths still hold sway but data from Strategic Insight shows new, independent outlets are quickening their pace. Tahn Sharpe writes.

Client-centricity needs more than just lip service

The industry is generating plenty of discourse about putting the customer first but data from Business Health shows advisers are becoming worse at actually doing it.

A stock portfolio for the new financial year

As we enter 2018-19, earnings and dividend forecasts point to an allocation surprisingly heavy in Financials – with a caveat. Ron Bewley explains.

3% per cent cap on super fees: why it matters

The swift progress of Kelly O’Dwyer’s plan to limit charges on Super to 3 per cent is a sign of the appetite for regulation in Parliament. All sectors will feel the impact.

CBA joins the great wealth escape

The disintegration of the institutional wealth advice model is happening. The banks are announcing sell-offs, spin-offs and divestitures of their wealth management businesses.

With the highest conviction

Intermede Investment Partners shares its philosophy behind long-term outperformance with a portfolio of just 40 growth companies. It’s strategy according to GARP.

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