Adviser Ratings merges with ProductRex
2 June 2023 by Jasmine Siljic, Money Management
Adviser Ratings’ wealth data and sentiment business ARdata announced its completed acquisition of investment and superannuation system ProductRex. With ARdata taking full ownership of the platform, ProductRex’s founder, Nick Topham, would...
Adviser Ratings acquires ProductRex
1 June 2023 by Professional Planner
Super and platform comparison tool ProductRex has been acquired by Adviser Ratings. The software was launched nearly two years ago by digital specialist Nick Topham, who operated it as a one1-person business. It grew significantly and now...
Media Release: Adviser Ratings Group Acquires Super & Investment Platform Comparison To...
1 June 2023 by Adviser Ratings
Australia’s leading wealth data and sentiment business, ARdata, has today announced it has completed the acquisition of ProductRex, the hugely popular investment, platform, and superannuation recommendation modelling tool for financial adv...
Advisers told to adjust to new economic reality
24 May 2023 by Keith Ford, Independent Financial Adviser
In the wake of the global financial crisis, a prolonged period of low inflation and historically low interest rates followed. However, with inflation soaring and interest rates subsequently rising, advisers will now face the challenge of g...
Investors at risk of making ‘costly mistakes’ amid advice access constraints
19 May 2023 by Charbel Kadib, Money Management
Data published by Adviser Ratings in 2022 revealed average ongoing advice fees increased 41 per cent in the three years to 2021, from $2,510 to $3,529.
Poll reveals 3 in 4 advisers support final QAR report
18 May 2023 by Maja Garaca Djurdjevic, Independent Financial Adviser
Speaking on a webcast hosted by the Financial Services Council (FSC) last week, Financial Services Minister Stephen Jones revealed that he would formulate the government’s response to the Quality of Advice Review (QAR) by early June. To c...
FAAA is ‘really concerned’ about risk advice, says Abood
17 May 2023 by Maja Garaca Djurdjevic, Independent Financial Adviser
The chief executive officer of the Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA), Sarah Abood, has revealed that the life risk advice space is on the association’s advocacy agenda. Last year, research from Adviser Ratings showed that ther...
65% of advisers are privately licensed
16 May 2023 by Keith Ford, Independent Financial Adviser
According to the latest Adviser Ratings Musical Chairs report, which was released on Monday, as at the end of March, there were 10,233 privately licensed advisers, accounting for the bulk of the profession. Breaking the numbers down furth...
Best Performing Life Insurance Providers Named
9 May 2023 by Risk Info
Technology and ratings firm, Adviser Ratings, has announced its life insurance Adviser Choice awards, which it says reveals the industry’s most trusted retail life insurers. Adviser Ratings says that PPS Mutual took the top spot, while Ne...