When the National bought MLC earlier this year, LendLease Financial Planning had to look for a new name – and fast. After some angst, the group took on the handle “Apoge...
Networking. We have mixed feelings about it. Some people enjoy it, while others shy away. Some say they are not good at doing the "small talk" thing, or are just too busy...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has signed on JD Allen & Associates as the recruitment agency in charge of forwarding candidates for the association’s chief exec...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has signed on JDC Allen & Associates as the recruitment agency in charge of forwarding candidates for the association’s chief exe...
Challenger International has gone a recruitment spree, luring industry notables Jamie Kelly away from a 12 year career with Mercantile Mutual and Sharon Knightley from tw...
The history of Glenhurst Corporation has mirrored the way the financial planning industry progressed during the nineties. First as a tied agent, then a multi-agent, it ha...
Education is shaping up as one of the big financial planning issues over the next couple of years. But the debate has shifted. No longer do people argue over the benefits...
The search for success in local funds management is naturally linked to success within the Australian equities sector. Mercantile Mutual believes the secret of its succe...
It seems these days there is no way directly up the financial industry ladder without owning a www.com login....
AMP Financial Planning has taken GIO Fund Managers into its embrace to make Australia’s largest financial planning group even bigger....
Reconnaissance of the enemy; targeting the prey; a grenade is pitched; interest is captured; probing and interrogation of possible defectors; sortie into enemy trenches; ...
An interesting turn has taken place in the financial services and recruitment sector, following the alliance between Strategic Resource Network (SRN) and Para planning Pr...
Everybody loves looking for work, particularly when you’re already working. There’s nothing better than hunching over your telephone, whispering at almost incoherent leve...
The bathroom cabinet of a chief investment officer is not chockers with bottles of My-lanta and tubes of Quick-eze, says Macquarie Investment Management’s Greg Matthews. ...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...