Radar Results

25/05/2022

Compliance & RegulationGeneral Call for 100% Risk Commissions May 23, 2022 1 Up-front commissions on life policies and other risk products should be moved back to 100% to incentivise advisers to retain risk advice in their client proposition, suggests Radar Results’ John Birt. Writing in the firm....

04/04/2022

The due diligence process undertaken to sell a financial advice business has tripled over the last decade. FOFA and Hayne royal commission reforms have meant potential buyers need to inspect every inch of a business before committing to a purchase.

30/03/2021

Advisers are being restrained by licensee lookback programs from selling their businesses, contributing to the drought of practices currently for sale on the market, according to one financial plann

08/10/2019

Boutique advice businesses need to be performing well to catch the eye of potential buyers even at reduced multiples than in previous years, according to a financial services M&A consultant.

25/07/2019

Financial advice practice broking firm Radar Results has appointed a new manager for the Queensland region.

12/04/2019

01/04/2019

The Federal Opposition has signalled it has little or no sympathy for advisers who have purchased books of trailing commissions and believes such people have failed to do their due diligence.

11/02/2019

Grandfathered trail commission clients down another 33%

Grandfathered trail commission clients (Down another 33%) February 11, 2019/in News /by Radar ResultsGrandfathered trail commission clients (Down another 33%) Radar Results (Radar) had seen recent sale transactions of grandfathered trail commission clients trade between 1.5x and 2.0x the annual trai...

14/12/2018

Financial planners with smaller risk insurance books are looking to offload them now, save waiting for Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's final report.

29/11/2018

Almost all Australians balancing family responsibilities and financial wellbeing believe they’re better off because of financial advice, according to a new Perpetual study.

08/11/2018

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled it will not be pressing to ban life/risk commissions at least until after it has reviewed the effectiveness of the Life Insurance Framework in 2021.