Dealer groups will need to reinvent themselves to survive, writes DAVID FOX....

WHEN Money Management recently reported that recruitment agencies were advertising non-existent roles, it raised a broader issue of what constitutes acceptable and ethica...

Tentative signs of recovery for accounting and auditing jobs may be indicator of broader improvement in financial services jobs....

A dependence on complex financial planning software is seeing practices outlay significant sums on the recruitment of younger, tech-savvy support staff rather than experi...

Employment in the banking and investment sectors is on the rise, and recruitment activity at the executive level has also seen an uptick. Meanwhile, insurance roles remai...

Financial services firms, including dealer groups and advice firms, are switching from annual staff performance reviews to one every three or six months....

South Australian practice is the second to join Matrix Planning Solutions in the space of a month....

More than half of all financial services hiring managers have put a freeze on appointments....

Salary freezes and reductions, job cuts and drawn-out recruitment processes: challenging times lie ahead, but the diversity of the financial services sector means a varie...

Senior financial planners who are going for interviews for financial planning roles are finding the jobs advertised don't exist....

The group's growth plans continue with the addition of a coastal planning practice owned by husband and wife team Tony and Kylie Davies. The pair plans to add more suppor...

According to Iress, wealth management companies are cutting back on software subscriptions, but subscriptions into insurance-based software are on the rise....

Scott Haywood and his team are using the downturn to position their business for the future, taking advantage of a more favourable employment market and increasing office...

Aviva cuts deep in the UK, with 1,100 permanent jobs to go along with 590 contract positions....