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To thrive in today’s advice world, a new role of ‘investment proposition owner’ can look beyond investment returns and demonstrate value to a client, writes Stuart Holdsworth.

As we lament the challenges of dealing with both the increased regulatory burden of delivering advice and demonstrating the value of advice in a ‘fee for service’ world, is there an opportunity w

While guidance for advisers is welcome, the onus is also on the Government to educate consumers on how much weight they should give finfluencers versus licensed professionals.

The chief executive and founder of a specialist digital platform believes the debate around technological innovation and financial advisers is well and truly over.

Financial services minister Jane Hume stood in front of a (virtual) room of financial advisers this year and assured them they had nothing to fear from technology.

The wealth management industry is headed toward a consumer-focused business model and the trend will only be accelerated by disruptive technology giants.

The combination of the consumer data right legislation and distributed ledger technology will give consumers the ability to control their wealth management data, taking power away from product providers.

Model portfolios should be reframed to allow financial advisers to carry out management in-house, a chief executive has proposed.

The Financial Services Council’s much-discussed white paper on financial advice could be neatly summarised with a good old square peg, round hole analogy: