{"id":83214,"date":"2026-07-17T10:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=83214"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:37:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T00:37:05","slug":"adviser-numbers-top-15050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2026\/07\/17\/adviser-numbers-top-15050\/","title":{"rendered":"Adviser Numbers Top 15,050"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The financial adviser workforce continued its positive start to the new financial year, with numbers rising by a net 27 during the week to 16 July, according to ASIC data shared by Padua Wealth Data.<\/p>\n<p>The increase lifted the number of advisers on ASIC&#8217;s Financial Advisers Register to 15,050, following a net gain of 39 in the previous week. In the first week of July numbers fell to 14,984 (the lowest since the Financial Adviser Register commenced in 2015).<\/p>\n<p>Padua Wealth Data Manager <strong>Colin Williams<\/strong> said growth remained broadly based, with 43 licensee owners recording net gains compared with 17 reporting losses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57476\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57476\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2021\/09\/Colin-Williams.jpg\" alt=\"Colin Williams, Wealth Data Insights.\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colin Williams.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Twenty-one new entrants joined the register during the week, maintaining strong recruitment following the latest Financial Adviser Exam results. A total of 70 advisers were involved in appointments or resignations.<\/p>\n<p>Among individual licensees, Gill and Co continued its steady expansion and three new licensees commenced operations during the week.<\/p>\n<p>Williams said he had also examined advisers&#8217; ASIC registration status, noting that while registration has been mandatory since 2024, not all advisers are currently registered and some AFSL\u2019s have no registered advisers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The financial adviser workforce continued its positive start to the new financial year, with numbers rising by a net 27 during the week to 16 July, according to ASIC data shared by Padua Wealth Data. The increase lifted the number of advisers on ASIC&#8217;s Financial Advisers Register to 15,050, following a net gain of 39 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":83216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-compliance-regulation","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83214","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=83214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83217,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83214\/revisions\/83217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}