Analysis of financial planning industry job advertisements performed by eJobs Recruitment Specialists has shown that while ad numbers have increased in the Victorian and ...

Credit Suisse Asset Management chief executive Andrew McKinnon has ended an 11-year stint at the Switzerland-based fund manager’s Australian operation....

Australia is currently enjoying the best employment market in years with a low national unemployment rate. Job seekers in most markets have many choices and career option...

In-house planners with the Commonwealth Bank will be expected to improve their SMSF skills, with Australia’s third largest dealer group signalling its intention to overha...

BT Financial-owned dealer group Magnitude has recruited its first practice, following its launch in August last year....

With the introduction of financial services reform, the ‘know your client’ obligation for financial planners is more critical than ever before....

Research houses are urging investor caution after yesterday’s shock announcement by Colonial First State that it had lost its entire listed property team....

Boutique dealer group AAA Financial Group (AAAFG) has expanded its head count to 80 advisers nationally from 10 at the start of the year, and is preparing to launch a mor...

The Queensland Investment Company (QIC) has launched an infrastructure fund that will seek investment opportunities globally....

RetireInvest has achieved its target of growing the firm’s distribution network by 60 planners in 2005 through the recent addition of 12 new advisers to the dealer group....

The low unemployment levels driven by a buoyant share market and thriving economy, as well as an increased need to recruit compliance professionals following the implemen...

The real story of financial planning recruitment this year is not that the prevailing skills shortage continues to broaden, but that there has been no corresponding rise ...

Growing competitiveness in the financial services sector is pushing recruitment demand away from service-oriented advisers to those with a “demonstrated ability to sell”,...

Insurance and financial planning group Australian Unity has lost close to half of its financial planners since May as a result of a major overhaul of its dealer group....