Industry: Advice

Outsized Impact: Playbooks for Consolidators

The anticipation is for a moderation in the number of IFA firms selling to Consolidators in 2023. Strategic buyers, aligning their offerings with the more comprehensive requirements of selling adviser-owners, are likely to experience a renewed influx in their prospect pipelines.

A future industry structure

Advice propositions today are largely based on providing consumers with comprehensive advice (considering a wide range of the consumer’s financial needs, circumstances and products) on an ongoing basis and consumers have either accepted that or not engaged at all.

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NEST’s members: targets for competitors?

The minimum contributions ramp-up is helping drive growth in DC workplace pension flows. In parallel, the switching “secondary market”, long predicted but slow to emerge, is also picking up steam. Against a slow growth UK wealth market, these dynamics make workplace pensions appear tempting for entrants. But with profitability elusive, is this actually a siren song?

Financial advice reimagined

It’s our view that the industry in Australia has reached an inflection point where the haze of the past 12 months has started to lift and structural changes are emerging. In this video, David Hutchison examines one of the changes we are already seeing play out, but expect to continue at an even faster rate – the landscape for the advice market.