{"id":81105,"date":"2026-02-16T09:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=81105"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:58:56","slug":"esencia-wealth-merges-with-fma-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2026\/02\/16\/esencia-wealth-merges-with-fma-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Esencia Wealth Merges with FMA Wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advice firm <a href=\"https:\/\/esenciawealth.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esencia Wealth<\/a> is merging with FMA Wealth and welcoming <strong>Frank MacDonagh<\/strong> as a Senior Financial Adviser and member of the firm\u2019s advisory board.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Fenning<\/strong>, CEO Esencia Wealth, said: &#8220;Our merger with FMA Wealth demonstrates our continued commitment to sustainable growth, built on exceptional people and deep client relationships.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_81106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81106\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81106\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/02\/Frank-MacDonagh.jpg\" alt=\"Frank MacDonagh, Senior Financial Adviser and member of Esencia Wealth's Advisory Board.\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank MacDonagh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOver 18 months ago we launched Esencia Wealth, created out of a merger between four likeminded advice firms. Since then, we have been in talks with other quality firms looking to join a dynamic, future-focused advice business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are thrilled to welcome FMA Wealth and Frank, whose passion for his clients and personal values align perfectly with ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MacDonagh has spent 25 years running FMA Wealth, advising high net-worth clients. He \u00a0has worked with investment banks and consulting firms in Sydney, London, and Tokyo, including at Merrill Lynch and KPMG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advice firm Esencia Wealth is merging with FMA Wealth and welcoming Frank MacDonagh as a Senior Financial Adviser and member of the firm\u2019s advisory board. Matthew Fenning, CEO Esencia Wealth, said: &#8220;Our merger with FMA Wealth demonstrates our continued commitment to sustainable growth, built on exceptional people and deep client relationships. \u201cOver 18 months ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":81110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,48],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-appointments","8":"category-company-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81105","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81111,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81105\/revisions\/81111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}