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Facebook usage in Australia going up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... slipping, the number of Australians using the social media platform actually jumped 2.75% in May to reach 12.2 million. LinkedIn was ranked a distant second with 3.7 million users and Twitter was third with 2.1 million users, according to figures released ...

Count goes "social" in hunt for accountancy business

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... Financial Services Licence (AFSL). Count chief executive David Lane told Financial Standard that it is using Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram to build trust with accounting practices who may be interested in transitioning to becoming financial advice ...

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 ...