Investment Performance Measurement and Risk Management (iPARM) Forum – 2019
Kaizen Recruitment attended the Investment Performance Measurement and Risk Management (iPARM) 2019 forum, hosted by IBR Conferences over two days. Discussions at the forum explored several key themes, including: Attribution modelling and methodologies to calculating performance; Highlighting the importance of asset owners to improve transparency and ‘measuring to be able to improve’; and The importance…
Kaizen Team Attends 2019 AIST Awards
The Kaizen team attended the 2019 AIST awards event where it was great to connect with so many of our clients including AIST, IFM Investors, HESTA, State Street, First State Super, Frontier Advisors and MTAA Super. A special mention goes to HESTA who dominated the awards winning most of their nominated categories within the areas…
Kaizen Awarded Seek Recruitment Agency Of The Year 2019
Kaizen Recruitment has been announced winner of the SEEK Sara Small Recruitment Agency of the Year 2019. The win reflects a period of particularly strong growth for Kaizen, but ultimately, I believe this award is an acknowledgement of our core values: compassion, accountability and respect. Importantly, I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely…
Risk And Compliance Leaders Charged With Raising The Bar On Non-Financial Risk
Kaizen recently hosted a roundtable to discuss the implications of ASIC’s Corporate Governance Task Force Report, spearheaded by ASIC Chair, James Shipton. The task force was established following revelations of significant corporate governance failure during the recent banking royal commission. The roundtable was chaired by Alex Lord, Financial Services Director at Deloitte and attended by…
Leaders In Funds Management: Brett Jollie, Managing Director, Aberdeen Asset Management
Brief overview of Brett Jollie’s career to date: After completing my degree in 1993, jobs were quite scarce as I had timed my graduation to coincide with the “recession we had to have” (Paul Keating). This was a challenging time for the Australian economy, and for my job opportunities! Many months passed but I was…
Business Development Salary Guide Financial Services 2020
The outcomes of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry and changes to financial advice education standards has resulted in a slowdown across the financial advice industry. The follow on effect has been a decreased demand for business development professionals within retail funds management and retail life insurance. There…
Zenith Fund Awards – 2019
On behalf of Kaizen Recruitment, I would like to personally acknowledge and congratulate all the winners of the Zenith Fund Awards 2019. It was a privilege to share a room with the most successful and highest performers in our industry. Kaizen attended the awards ceremony and are proud to have supported a number of this…
Financial Services HR Leaders Gather At Kaizen Luncheon
A number of key issues facing human resources leaders were discussed at Kaizen’s HR luncheon held this week. The session was chaired by Johanna Neilsen, Head of People at VFMC and former Executive Manager People and Culture at Cbus. The luncheon drew together representatives from a range of financial services organisations, with the aim of…
Kaizen Recruitment One Of Five Finalists In The SEEK SARA Awards 2019
Kaizen is extremely honored to be nominated as one of five finalists in the prestigious SEEK Annual Recruitment Awards (SARA) for Small Recruitment Agency of the Year. Winners will be announced at SEEK’s gala event in Melbourne on 14 November. We are very humbled to receive the nomination and would like to thank SEEK, the…