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Financial planning

ParaPlanning Professionals, which claims to have pioneered the concept of contract paraplanning in Australia, has opened an office in New South Wales....

Financial planning

Planners in the money

Financial planners are sitting pretty. Not only are they in great demand, but many are earning in excess of $100,000 a year and most can expect good increases in the comi...

Financial planning

There’s paraplanning gold in them there hills

If the burgeoning sector evolving around employing and outsourcing paraplanners is to be believed, there’s a gold rush going on. “Good people” are talked of in hushed ton...

Financial planning

Recruitment – Time to see the light and catch the gold rush

Human resources managers are under growing pressure to identify and recruit what are known as gold collar workers. Gold collar workers are those with the skills and talen...

Financial planning

More hiring than firing, survey reveals

Money managers looking to land a new job can expect the next few months to offer their best opportunity in years, according to the latest Morgan & Banks job survey....

Financial planning

Recruitment – Window of opportunity opens even further

Judging from recent publicity and a sampling of the positions vacant columns, demand and rewards for financial planners and associated support staff is growing strongly. ...

Financial planning

Credit Suisse beefs up for retail funds market

Credit Suisse has scored a coup by poaching high-profile business development executive Clayton Coplestone for its fledgling retail funds management business....

Financial planning

Point of View – All signs show we can party like it’s 1999

As we are still in the first month of a new year, it’s appropriate to wish all financial planners a happy and prosperous 1999. However, recent evidence suggests that such...

Financial planning

New Zealand newsround – ‘Bitter’ merger fallout sparks splinter faction

The fallout from the lengthy, convoluted and occasionally acrimonious merger last year between New Zealand's two largest financial adviser bodies continues....

Financial planning

Competitors threaten a not-so happy new year

At this time of the year we usually wish all our readers a very happy and prosperous new year. But perhaps we need to wish it just a little more strongly than usual this ...