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Clients want a "social" relationship with advisers

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
More than half of adviser clients would like to communicate with their adviser via social media platforms, LinkedIn's Sascha Ambrose told the audience at the first day of the AdviserEdge Social Advice Summit in Melbourne. According to Ambrose, 73% of ...

AFA Inspire initiative launched in Sydney

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... said. "We want to connect women in financial services and encourage more women to seek financial advice." The AFA Inspire LinkedIn group has already grown to almost 300 members and Hornery said she was looking forward to connecting with more financial ...

LinkedIn the fastest-growing tech company... again

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
LinkedIn was by far the fastest-growing tech company over the past 12 months, according to Forbes' list, America's Fastest Growing Tech Companies 2013 With a three-year average sales growth of 102%, LinkedIn beat second-place Facebook (87 %), and third-place ...

Advisers' Twitter usage doubles in 18 months

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... extraordinary growth in advisers using social media; especially the more business and news related platforms, such as Twitter, Linkedin and YouTube," he said. There has been a 123% increase in advisers' usage of Twitter over the last 18 months. That ...

Study highlights honesty of LinkedIn users

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
Only 24% of financial services execs regard information posted on LinkedIn as trustworthy, according to a study released this week. The study, carried out by recruitment agency Robert Half, polled 150 chief executives and finance directors in Hong Kong. ...

Former AFS executive appointed at BT

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... Development Meaghan Unsworth has been appointed senior product development manager at BT Financial Group. Unsworth's LinkedIn profile shows that she was appointed on May and she had been working at AFS since September 2009. AFS was placed into administration ...

SelfWealth provides socially responsible portfolios

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... professionals for a monthly fee. In a system that's akin to the finance equivalent of social networks such as Facebook or Linkedin, users can "like" and follow other profiles and sort their portfolios by popularity, performance and a risk scale from ...

Online risk applications surpass paper-based: Asteron Life

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... the consumer trend. Leading the field is Aaron Zelman, director at Lifescope Solutions and the founder of a very active LinkedIn network for tech-savvy advisers. He is a big fan of web-based social tools such as Dropbox, Google Docs, Skype and Google ...

Peer-to-peer portfolio benchmarking gains appeal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... tracking of their portfolio. In a system that's akin to the finance equivalent of social networks such as Facebook or Linkedin, users can "like" and follow other profiles and sort their portfolios by popularity, performance and a risk scale from one ...

Social media a counter-balance to info overload

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... achieve immediate wins in the social media stakes if they only bother to properly service existing clients, ensure their LinkedIn profile is built efficiently, and overcome their fear of making a video. That was one of the key messages that Baz Gardner ...