{"id":71134,"date":"2024-04-29T12:53:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T02:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=71134"},"modified":"2024-05-01T12:28:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T02:28:36","slug":"surge-in-new-advisers-predicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2024\/04\/29\/surge-in-new-advisers-predicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge in New Advisers Predicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A surge in new entrant financial advisers is expected over the next few weeks now that the latest financial adviser exam results have been released, says <a href=\"https:\/\/wealthdata.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wealth Data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In analysing the March 2024 financial adviser exam results, Wealth Data\u2019s <strong>Colin Williams<\/strong> says this latest exam had both the highest number of candidates at 298 and candidates passing (210) since Aug 2022 (see: <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2024\/04\/26\/latest-financial-adviser-exam-results-released-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latest Results Released<\/a>).<\/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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He also found the number of candidates for the March exam\u00a0 \u201c\u2026was a significant uptick on exams held during 2023. The most [advisers] sitting one exam in 2023 was 219 in November.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams says it would appear the new exam format, of removing the short answer questions and increasing the number of multiple-choice questions \u201c\u2026did not make a significant difference to the pass rates. The pass rate at 70% was similar to all pass rates since the start of 2023, which have fluctuated between 63% and 73%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However he notes his chart below, \u2018Total Passed Versus Current Advisers\u2019 highlights that &#8220;&#8230;as at the end of March, 3,955 candidates have passed the exam but are not currently practicing as an adviser.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis number may shrink over the next weeks, as we tend to find advisers joining the FAR as Provisional Advisers, after passing the exam,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71136\" style=\"width: 1171px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/Colin-williams-april-29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71136\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/Colin-williams-april-29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1171\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/Colin-williams-april-29.jpg 1171w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/Colin-williams-april-29-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/Colin-williams-april-29-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/Colin-williams-april-29-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/Colin-williams-april-29-696x338.jpg 696w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/Colin-williams-april-29-1068x519.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/Colin-williams-april-29-864x420.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1171px) 100vw, 1171px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Wealth Data.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surge in new entrant financial advisers is expected over the next few weeks now that the latest financial adviser exam results have been released, says Wealth Data. In analysing the March 2024 financial adviser exam results, Wealth Data\u2019s Colin Williams says this latest exam had both the highest number of candidates at 298 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":71139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71134","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\/71134","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=71134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}