Practice Growth
HR and workplace culture insights for Australian financial advice practices, covering leadership, retention, and team building.
Solving the adviser shortage starts in the regions
As the financial advice industry battles to attract new entrants and stabilise adviser numbers, the advice gap in regional Australia is laden with bigger...
Leadership is a craft: Jim DeCarlo on building great advice firms
Leadership in wealth management is not a fixed trait. It evolves with markets, technologies and the shifting expectations of clients and staff.
AMP continues 'simplification' push with super, North restructure
AMP will reduce the headcount across its superannuation and North platform businesses and press ahead with changes to its redundancy policies even as the...
‘They’re going ballistic’: AMP slashes redundancy benefits across business
AMP has cut redundancy pay maximums and notice periods in a move that has left long-term employees dismayed after they stuck with the company through the royal...
Advisers cram in the clients, but have more support than ever
When you have an increase of 50 per cent in support staff over a 4 year span, it hints at some serious changes to the shape of advice practices across the...
'Make it cool': Hunt for grads heats up as professional service firms scramble for talent
Making up the adviser shortfall is going to be a challenge, with the big professional services firms just as desperate for top-level talent as advice groups....
What paraplanners want: How advisers can work better, ditch the double-ups and make staff smile
It's not a corner office or a fatter pay packet at the top of paraplanners' collective wish list, but something that is much more beneficial to financial...
Bridging the generational divide key to 'daunting' Professional Year
When an industry full of Gen X and Baby Boomer advisers is assigned the task of training swathes of largely millennial acolytes, there's bound to be a few...
Paraplanners are changing, but they still don't want to be advisers
The percentage of paraplanners that have ambitions to become qualified financial advisers has decreased dramatically, with several key drivers behind the...
Further 7pc of advisers linked to unis: Principals Community brings scale to grad drive
With 127 practices under its wing, the tie-up between Kon Costas' ex-BT network and Deakin University will give 1,263 advisers a direct line to graduates and...
Why finance needs more women
There goes International Women’s Day. In financial markets, many have highlighted notable woman who have made their way to a distinctive and influential...