RECRUITMENT

People & Products

Professional Investment Services will appoint a new chief executive for its advice business, with co-founder and chief executive Robbie Bennetts to take a step back from ...

Financial planning

Only 32 per cent of new Mortgage Choice franchisees in 2009 had a lending background....

People & Products

Professional Investment Services has announced the addition of four new members to its management team, with key research, compliance, adviser services and practice recru...

Financial planning

ING-owned RI Advice Group has taken a 20 per cent stake in Ray Miles' new dealer group, Fortnum Financial Group....

Financial planning

Genesys Wealth Advisers put in place an 'adviser growth incentive scheme' in the final months of last year, which encouraged member firms to sign on support staff and rec...

People & Products

Professional Investment Services is recruiting for a number of people to fill key compliance, research and product development functions within its head office....

Financial planning

Capstone Financial Planning aims to boost adviser numbers by 10 per cent this year, although it will maintain a selective recruitment approach, says managing director Gra...

Financial planning

Centric chairman Philip Kelly spoke with Lucinda Beaman about the financial services industry and his plans for 2010....

Financial planning

Does the drop in Australia’s unemployment rate translate into more opportunities in the financial services sector, and is the war for talent about to recommence from wher...

Editorial

With the war for talent in the financial services sector set to resume in the wake of the global financial crisis, some are arguing that the only way to develop the indus...

Financial planning

Centric’s new chief, former Hillross MD John McMurdo, has been handed a business revived from its debt woes, and will be tasked with getting its growth targets back on tr...

Financial planning

Employment demand for financial planners is rising and so are salaries, but paraplanners are struggling to find roles, according to the latest recruitment data....

Financial planning

A slow acquisition period for financial planning practices in the second half of 2009 may be the result of principals sitting back to see what eventuates in the marketpla...

Life/Risk

John Ciacciarelli explains key person insurance and the capital gains tax issues it raises....

Financial planning

Two senior managers of the AIA Australia Adviser Services team have left the company with immediate effect....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 1 week ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months 2 weeks ago

The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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