{"id":67778,"date":"2023-09-26T07:13:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T21:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=67778"},"modified":"2024-10-30T08:39:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T22:39:55","slug":"opportunity-to-bring-more-advisers-back-into-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2023\/09\/26\/opportunity-to-bring-more-advisers-back-into-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity to Bring More Advisers Back into Advice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest analysis shows there are now nearly 3,500 \u2018surplus\u2019 advisers &#8211; those who are eligible to practice versus the number of current advisers on ASIC&#8217;s FAR.<\/p>\n<p>In looking at the results of the latest financial adviser exam, <a href=\"https:\/\/wealthdata.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wealth Data\u2019s<\/a> <strong>Colin Williams<\/strong> highlights the gap between the number of candidates that have passed the exam versus the number of \u2018current\u2019 advisers at the time of the exam.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56513\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2021\/07\/colin-williams.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56513\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2021\/07\/colin-williams.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colin Williams &#8230;aware than many advisers passed the exam and still exited<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Williams notes that in August 2022, there was a \u2018surplus\u2019 of 2,229 of people \/ advisers eligible to practice versus current advisers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat surplus has now grown to 3,476 which is 22% of the current advisers for August 2023,\u201d he states.<\/p>\n<p>Williams adds Wealth Data is aware that many advisers passed the exam and still exited shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, this calendar year alone, 713 advisers have ceased on the ASIC FAR, all would have passed the exam. Many are being replaced by advisers coming back into advice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However that the firm can see \u201c\u2026there is a big opportunity to bring many more advisers back into advice.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67782\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67782\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/09\/colin-williams-exam-graph.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67782\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/09\/colin-williams-exam-graph.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/09\/colin-williams-exam-graph.png 740w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/09\/colin-williams-exam-graph-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/09\/colin-williams-exam-graph-696x363.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Wealth Data.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest analysis shows there are now nearly 3,500 \u2018surplus\u2019 advisers &#8211; those who are eligible to practice versus the number of current advisers on ASIC&#8217;s FAR. In looking at the results of the latest financial adviser exam, Wealth Data\u2019s Colin Williams highlights the gap between the number of candidates that have passed the exam versus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":67786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67778","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=67778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}