Financial Advice Register: Time is running

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Sonia Cruz Individuals who provide personal advice to retail clients about financial products have until 30 May 2015 to update their details on ASIC’s Financial Adviser Register in order to... Read more continue reading

Award winning financial literacy advocate drives success with unique client segmentation approach

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With a trademark ‘can-do’ approach, a leading Australian financial planner and advocate for client centric professional advice has revealed some of her winning business ways, forged by investing greater time... Read more continue reading

Nominations now open for 2015 AFA Female Excellence in Advice Award

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Celebrating female leadership and innovation in advice The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and leading life insurer TAL have jointly launched and opened nominations for the 2015 AFA Female Excellence... Read more continue reading

10 ways to build trust with prospective clients

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Trust is built over time.  It is not given automatically to most professionals by most prospective clients at the outset. That’s just a fact of life. The very best we... Read more continue reading

Westpac recognised as a leader in workplace inclusion

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Westpac Group has been acknowledged for its leadership in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) employee inclusion at the 2015 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) Awards on Friday 15... Read more continue reading

Why we hate managing poor performers and what to do about it

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Having been an internal HR practitioner and now the owner of my own HR consulting business, I have been involved in managing poor performance many times. A client recently contacted... Read more continue reading

The perfect time to ‘Make it Happen’ for your financial planning business, and earn CPD points, too.

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Over the month of May, Centuria Capital will be hosting ‘Make it Happen’- a series of free half-day seminars featuring guest-speakers; Vanessa Bennett (Financial services veteran, and coach/ business consultant... Read more continue reading

How to create the “AHA” with clients (and get TOTAL buy-in)

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It is tough in professional services to get clients to fully understand what you do, and where your knowledge and skills can make a difference in their lives.  Much of... Read more continue reading

Advice profession continues to weather unprecedented ‘perfect storm’ with many unable to respond

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Connect Financial Service Brokers (Connect) CEO Paul Tynan has referred to the current situation confronting the financial advice profession as the ‘perfect storm’ where advisers are unable to fulfil expansion... Read more continue reading

The Stella Network rewards women helping women

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The Stella Network has awarded a Masters in Financial Planning to Anne-Marie Humphries from Huon Financial Planning in recognition of her support to women in the financial planning industry. Ms... Read more continue reading