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Financial Advisor Salary Guide

Diminishing adviser numbers, increased client referrals, adviser experience gaps, business mergers, book purchases, compliance burden, licensee costs, business exits, and a wide array of other structural and strategic business changes have been key points raised in conversations these past 12 months. It is not news to wealth management firms, that securing new talent, and retaining…

Investment Operations Salary Guide 2022

We are very grateful to be serving an industry that has stayed strong through the pandemic. The employment market has stayed buoyant and resilient thus far as Kaizen Recruitment expressed in its recent market update, which is a consistent theme across investment operations as well. As with other areas of the market, demand for investment…

Investment Accounting Career Guide

Investment and fund accountants continue to be in greater demand than the depth of strong talent in the market, despite the pandemic. Here is a career guide if you are looking to grow your career within the industry, along with the latest market update and salary guide that you may refer to. Investment accountants are…

Fund Accounting Salary Guide 2022

Investment accountants have been, and for the foreseeable future, will continue to be in great demand. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, talent shortages have heightened within investment accounting with demand outstripping the supply of quality candidates. A war for local talent has ensued with Australian borders being closed, a pan-industry theme, including as…

Kaizen Recruitment Welcomes Fiona Lu As Senior Recruitment Consultant

Kaizen Recruitment is thrilled to introduce the newest member of our team, Fiona Lu.                                     Growing up in Sydney, Fiona has always been deeply entrenched in the financial services industry. Fluent in no less than three Chinese dialects,…

ESG Investment Professionals Salary Guide Financial Services 2022

There has been a significant lift in demand for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investment professionals across our clients in funds management, superannuation, asset consulting and policy and advocacy. The rise of awareness across society for ESG issues is having a broad impact and is permeating through to the corporate world. This trend has been…

Leaders in Investment Management, Hannah Pietsch – Head of Communications, Bennelong Funds Management

Brief overview of your career to date. I started out as a market analyst at a not-for-profit organisation after an executive noticed my spreadsheet skills. That led to a position as a research and evaluation manager, but I knew a life of statistics wasn’t for me and had a minor quarter-life crisis. I took a…

Leaders in Investment Management, Megan Talmage – Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager, Blue Orbit Asset Management

Brief overview of your career to date. I started out on the sell side – stock trading for institutional clients (primarily fund managers) at a stockbroking firm based in Perth. After several years I made the decision that I wanted to be on the buy side and making decisions rather than just implementing them- which…

Risk And Compliance Salary Guide Financial Services 2022

Kaizen Recruitment’s Amanda Chisholm provides analysis and commentary on recent salary data trends within her specialisation (Risk and Compliance). Introduction The current Risk and Compliance market is especially buoyant, with a continued war for local talent proceeding as Australian borders remain closed. This theme is spread across financial services, including, as mentioned recently, in a…