Fiducian focuses on practice development
Financial services group, Fiducian has changed the role of some of its employees and part of its franchise model, in a bid to better ‘support and develop' planners.
Fiducian Financial Services' (FFS) head of financial planning, Robby Southall said Ben Davies will take up the role of practice development manager (PDM), and leave his recruitment position. He said as part of Davies' new role, he will be responsible for "finalising on-boarding for franchises and associates."
Southall said Fiducian promoted "internally due to the excellent performance of staff in the past year".
Its franchise servicing will also shift from a segment model to a geographical one, said Southall.
He noted, the listed company will "have two regions, northern and southern. Stephen Batchelor will be the PDM [in the] southern region and Ben Davies PDM [in the] northern."
Fiducian's salaried network will remain much the same, with Sydney-based Michael Dale looking after the northern region while Melbourne-based, Stephen Scerrie will manage the southern region, according to Southall.
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