Deborah Kent encouraging women in Financial Services with her new video series – Dare to Dream

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With over 30 years’ experience as a Financial Adviser, Deborah Kent of Integra Financial Services, has faced many challenges and disruptions to be where she is today at the top... Read more continue reading

The art of being present (without being a nuisance)

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Promoting our personal professional brand is essentially all about creating top-of-mind-awareness. Being the person that our target market thinks of, and then calls, when they recognise a need or desire... Read more continue reading

Addressing the D word – Part two

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A well designed recruitment strategy will provide you with all the tools you will need to ensure that you hire the best fit candidate for your business. It should also... Read more continue reading

“Coming up short” Risk management in the Australian Boardroom

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A major review into corporate governance practice has revealed many boards of ASX listed companies are still in the dark regarding their disclosure obligations in regard to environmental, social and... Read more continue reading

Diversity among ASX companies improving but at slow pace

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Just over a quarter (26%) of the Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) of Australia’s top 200 companies are female, according to new research by KPMG Australia for the ASX Education and Research Program. The... Read more continue reading

Addressing the ‘D’ word – Part one

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Recruiting the best fit employees for your business brings with it a multitude of challenges at each stage of the recruitment process. Discrimination is one of those challenges and is... Read more continue reading

Financial advice industry responds to Recommendation 25

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Do advisers really need a tertiary compliance degree? The nationwide Certainty Advice Group has responded to Treasurer Morrison’s proposal for more stringent compliance accreditations. In his recent blog post, Certainty... Read more continue reading

New industry standards body: Design it well to ensure adviser education and consumers come first

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“The Government’s proposed education and ethical standards body for financial advisers must be designed well to ensure adviser education and consumers come first”, says MD of Mentor Education, Dr Mark... Read more continue reading

Designating contracts

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Most contracts contain indemnity clauses that require one party to indemnify the other if things go wrong. Where there’s an imbalance of negotiating power, these clauses are often quite unfair... Read more continue reading

Using social media to recruit new employees

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Employers are increasingly using social media to source candidates with LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter positioning them as an integral part of recruitment programs. Even those employers with extensive networks will... Read more continue reading