RETENTION

Financial planning

While hiring new staff in a financial advice practice inevitably incurs expenses, Striver’s Alisdair Barr says the greater business cost can come from losing the skills o...

Financial planning

Providing well developed professional year programs and offering flexible working arrangements are two key drivers leading to higher retention of new advice entrants, two...

Financial planning

The number of new entrants in the financial advice profession who have since departed this year has seen an improvement from the amount that left in 2023....

Financial planning

With advice firms reporting challenges around staff retention and hiring, half of employees say they are willing to change careers in the next 12 months and pay isn’t alw...

Financial planning

Two advice professionals have discussed why three-quarters of advisers looking to leave the industry in the next 12 months are under 40, and what can be done....

Superannuation

Australian workplace mental health is still a work in progress, as one in four employees experience a high level of stress at work and one in five of those say they will ...

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Life/Risk

Freedom’s retention practices make it “unnecessarily difficult to cancel [insurance] policies” with just 28.5 per cent of customers trying to cancel funeral insurance cov...

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Life/Risk

Freedom received 72 cancellation calls a day from customers for its funeral insurance policy over a 13-month period, with 13 per cent of those calls coming during the fir...

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Financial planning

New Investment Trends research has revealed that demand for good financial advice has never been higher but planners are struggling to retain clients in an environment wh...

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So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...

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Denise Baker

This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...

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gonski

So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...

2 months 2 weeks ago

A Sydney-based financial adviser has been banned from providing financial services in the interest of consumer protection after failing to act on conduct concerns. ...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of a $250 million Sydney fund manager, one of two AFSL cancellations announced by the corporate regulator....

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