recruitment

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) is set to continue its graduate programme but has halved the size of its intake.

The Financial Skills Partnership (FSP) is to launch a plan to train 150 unemployed graduates as financial advisers.

Towry Law is to recruit ex-bank advisers and upscale wealth managers following the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), according to its chief executive.

Plymouth-based Financial Management Services has seen five staff walk out because they found the the fees structure required by RDR 'unworkable', according to managing director Ken Hayden.

Lighthouse Advisory Services will increase the number of advisers working in its affinity division by approximately 100 over the next year, from 220 currently, according to joint CEO Malcolm Streatfield.

National IFAs have launched a recruitment drive in the run-up to the New Year by inundating firms with invites to join their businesses.

Three insurance industry recruitment specialists have joined forces to open a specialist insurance personnel consultancy, CPB Partners.

Graduates are usually - but not always - fresh-faced, eager and ready to learn. Question is: how do you spot the ones who are right for your business?

Jonathan Davis, who was announced as the new ABI director of investment affairs in November, has revealed he will not take up the role after all.

IFAs can learn best practice during the upturn from advisers who lost, then regained, jobs during the recession, says an industry recruiter.