Younger advisers more likely to depart industry; The scalability benefits of managed accounts

Of those financial advisers indicating they are looking to leave the industry, three-quarters are advisers aged under 40 which is presenting a problem for future growth.

The adoption of managed accounts is essential for financial advice businesses to achieve scale, two experts argue, otherwise advisers risk “limiting their growth”.

“I’ve got liquidity problems.” This phrase has become a badge of honour among large-cap fund managers; a self-deprecating gloat that they’ve outgrown the market and become a victim of their own success.

Schroders is to close the wholesale class of a global equity fund, while a sustainable one will be repositioned as an ESG one in light of higher sustainability criteria in Australia.

Australians aged 18–34 years old are demonstrating a higher degree of trust in social media-sourced advice over professional financial advisers, according to ASFA.

The firm acquired Pendal in January 2023, but some 80 per cent of the firm’s FY24 asset management outflows came from Pendal products, according to Morningstar.

A UK investment manager specialising in derivatives-based strategies has made one of its funds open to professional Australian investors.

The rise of self-licensed financial advisers is creating a “once in a generation” opportunity for platforms as they are prompted to select their platform of choice for the first time.