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The Commonwealth Bank is free to pursue an acquisition of Count Financial after being given the green light by the ACCC....
People & Products
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has announced the appointment of Peter Kell and Greg Tanzer as the regulator’s new commissioners....
Financial planning
The ACCC has called for submissions on the Commonwealth Bank's acquisition of Count Financial....
People & Products
Outgoing ACCC chairman, Graeme Samuel, will soon run the Melbourne office of independent investment bank Greenhill Caliburn....
Financial planning
The Government has been accused of breaching its own guidelines in appointing the new ASIC and the ACCC chairmen....
Financial planning
The Federal Government has introduced legislation to Parliament to prevent price signalling between banks regarding mortgage rate increases....
Financial planning
Empowerment of credit unions and building societies may prove advantageous to planners....
Financial planning
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and New Zealand Commerce Commission have announced cross-appointments, which follows the Single Economic Market ...
Financial planning
Curbing the banks’ ability to comment on their funding costs and interest rate intentions would result in a one-sided public debate, the Australian Bankers’ A...
Editorial
Nobody should be terribly surprised that AMP turned suddenly coy in its desire to acquire AXA Asia Pacific. It was all part of a renewed corporate mating ritual....
Financial planning
ACCC chairman, Graeme Samuel has defended the time taken and the processes pursued in the decision to veto NAB’s acquisition of AXA AP....
Funds management
It costs anywhere between $30 million and $100 million to establish a retail investment platform and the ACCC believes no new players will be ready to ante up – par...
Financial planning
A national advertising campaign to be run by AXA Asia Pacific over the next fortnight seeks to make a silver lining out of the ACCC’s blocking of its proposed marri...
Financial planning
With few regulatory hurdles in the way, AMP is expected to announce a renewed bid for AXA AP....
Financial planning
Competition in the retail investment platform market remained at the heart of the ACCC’s concerns, with IOOF deemed unable to provide the necessary competitive dyna...
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...