RECRUITMENT

Editorial

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

Financial planning

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

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

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 planning

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

Financial planning

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

Financial planning

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

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

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

Financial planning

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...

Life/Risk

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

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

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

Financial planning

Financial planners are facing the increasing likelihood of restraint of trade provisions being imposed against them as their employers look to protect their client lists ...

Financial planning

Dealer Group Australian Financial Services has confirmed it is in negotiations to acquire two small dealer groups in the wake of its failed bid to merge with Total Financ...

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