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Financial planning
The success of a dealer group is often measured by adviser numbers. However, examining the assets of the dealer group – that is, the funds under advice and the productivi...
Financial planning
Today’s risk advisers are having a tough time replacing themselves. There are no hard figures to prove numbers are dwindling, but most in the industry accept there is a p...
Financial planning
Is history haunting change in financial planning distribution?...
Financial planning
Increasingly, financial services organisations are conducting expensive searches offshore to replace senior executives when they resign....
Editorial
Australia’s ageing population is having a significant impact on both Government policy development and the superannuation industry. Richard Block explains the dynamic....
Editorial
Wage levels for paraplanners have stagnated over the past year, according to the Money Management Salary Survey....
Funds management
A senior Australian Prudential Regulation Authority official has said the superannuation industry has over-reacted to a letter warning that recruitment advertising might ...
Financial planning
Dealer group Associated Planners Financial Services is certainly living in interesting times. The firm first began its active recruitment drive in 2002, which culminated ...
Financial planning
Total Financial Solutions Australia managing director Michael Scott says that 151 per cent growth was exactly what the board of directors had been planning for....
Financial planning
Gross revenues for Guardian Financial Planning grew by 25 per cent in 2004, and the group is aiming to repeat that performance during the coming 12 months. Revenue growth...
Financial planning
The country’s largest dealer groups lost the most financial planners in 2004 and according to most of them, Financial Services Reform was to blame....
Financial planning
Mercer Human Resources Consulting is urging the Federal Government to raise the pension age from 65 to 67 and to reduce the taxation rate paid by superannuation funds as ...
Financial planning
The financial planning job market has moved on from its compliance myopia. Ross Kelly has the low down on the skills that will get you that dream job....
Financial planning
Mercer Investment Consulting has lost another key team member with funds management group Queensland Investment Corporation announcing today it has recruited senior analy...
Financial planning
Mercer Investment Consulting, bucking the trend against its recent hiring spree, has been forced to restructure its senior ranks following the departure of its national p...
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...