{"id":50173,"date":"2020-05-26T13:23:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T03:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=50173"},"modified":"2020-06-02T13:27:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T03:27:44","slug":"mlc-wealths-new-advice-business-tenfifty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2020\/05\/26\/mlc-wealths-new-advice-business-tenfifty\/","title":{"rendered":"MLC Wealth&#8217;s New Advice Business &#8211; TenFifty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlc.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLC Wealth<\/a> has announced its new licensee network for self-employed advisers and advice businesses as it simplifies its model by retiring the Garvan, Apogee and Meritum brands.<\/p>\n<p>MLC says in a media release that the new business-to-business adviser and licensee community, TenFifty Financial Group network \u201c\u2026is a further step towards creating a simpler, more focused and sustainable financial advice business\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It says it will offer a \u201c\u2026fresh approach to connecting advisers and business owners within the network with a view to delivering better outcomes for clients\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50176\" style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/05\/brendan-johnson-TenFifty-e1590458439169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-50176\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/05\/brendan-johnson-TenFifty-e1590458439169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/05\/brendan-johnson-TenFifty-e1590458439169.jpg 478w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/05\/brendan-johnson-TenFifty-e1590458439169-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/05\/brendan-johnson-TenFifty-e1590458439169-312x420.jpg 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TenFifty General Manager, Brendan Johnson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The company says that in August 2019, following a review, it confirmed changes to its advice business, including bringing together employed advisers under the MLC Advice brand and creating a new combined community of advice businesses, previously aligned with Garvan, Apogee and Meritum, under a new brand.<\/p>\n<p>(See <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2019\/08\/16\/mlc-wealth-distribution-shake-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLC Wealth Distribution Shake-Up<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdvisers within the TenFifty community will operate as authorised representatives of Australian Financial Services Licence holder, GWM Adviser Services Limited,\u201d MLC says.<\/p>\n<p>It notes that TenFifty will be led by General Manager, <strong>Brendan Johnson<\/strong>, who has been part of MLC for more than 18 years and is a strong advocate for professional financial advice.<\/p>\n<p>MLC\u2019s Acting Group Executive, Advice, <strong>Geoff Rogers<\/strong>, says the new licensee business offers advisers, businesses and their owners access to a new community built on the foundation of partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we announced our new strategic intent in 2019, we established a simpler operating model that would allow us to focus more on delivering for clients. This model included a new licensee business that could service a broad client base with different needs while offering unparalleled support for advisers,\u201d Rogers said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese challenging times have shown the true value of relationships and the power of community, and the advice industry is enduring extraordinary change. By establishing opportunities to connect with like-minded peers to learn, share and collaborate through the TenFifty network we believe advisers will be even better placed to offer quality advice and set themselves up for success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The name TenFifty is derived from the translation of MLC in roman numbers, \u201c\u2026reflecting MLC\u2019s strong heritage and expertise in advice and licensing\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLC Wealth has announced its new licensee network for self-employed advisers and advice businesses as it simplifies its model by retiring the Garvan, Apogee and Meritum brands. MLC says in a media release that the new business-to-business adviser and licensee community, TenFifty Financial Group network \u201c\u2026is a further step towards creating a simpler, more focused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":50178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-company-news","8":"category-general"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}