RECRUITMENT

Financial planning

The financial planning industry loses almost as many advisers as it gains each year, which explains the slow growth in adviser numbers over the past decade, according to ...

Financial planning

Employment prospects for the banking and financial services sectors are set to rise in the second quarter of 2011, according to recruitment consultancy Robert Walters....

People & Products

CommInsure has lost its adviser services and distribution head, Todd Kardash, to Clearview....

Financial planning

Economic uncertainty takes momentum out of financial services employment market but demand remains for planners. ...

Financial planning

Despite a strong rebound this year for the Australian financial services sector, it appears that the industry's employment outlook is not so rosy for the coming year, acc...

Financial planning

New employment research suggests those who frequently move jobs are not doing themselves any favours....

Editorial

The Trust Company has announced a fully franked 17 cents per share dividend and confirmed its financial guidance for the full year in its half-year results....

People & Products

Former head of acquisitions and succession for AXA’s Financial Advice Network, Steven Davison, has moved to Genesys Wealth Advisers to take up the newly created pos...

Financial planning

Standard & Poor’s Fund Services (S&P) has placed a ‘sell’ rating on the AMP Capital Equity Fund following the resignation of Simon Fitzgerald, t...

Financial planning

Hiring patterns across the banking and financial services industry show some sectors are booming while others, such as financial advice, reveal a decrease in hiring activ...

Financial planning

The number of advertised financial planning job ads is down 8.4 per cent across Australia, although this fall is in line with seasonal averages, according to eJobs Recrui...

Financial planning

Continuing volatility is one of the only things going against the top dealer groups at the moment. But they have proved resilient, and nothing is holding them back from i...

Financial planning

The lacklustre recovery from the global financial crisis can be seen in the growth or decline in planner numbers and FUA, writes Benjamin Levy....

People & Products

David McKay to leave his post as general manager of Commonwealth Financial Planning....

Financial planning

The make-up of the board of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) is not adequately representative of practising financial planners, according to recently resigned FPA...

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