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Financial planning

Does ANZ's contemplation of a wealth management exit combine with NAB's MLC Life transaction to signal the banks are losing their appetite for financial planning? ...

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Financial planning

Customer advocacy ratings show that the big banks have failed to maintain stability when it comes to customer satisfaction and loyalty....

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Financial planning

The Big Four’s tainted reputations have not deterred their customers who are still rating their banks at least seven out of 10, according to DBM Consultants....

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia claims the major banks are switching customers into under-performing retail super funds via direct sales tactics which bypass planners. ...

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Financial planning

Overall customer satisfaction levels for the Big Four remain high despite negative publicity and decreased home-loan customer satisfaction, according to a Roy Morgan surv...

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Financial planning

New research reveals that as few as 20 per cent of people trust their banks to give them unbiased advice....

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Financial planning

When the world at large says that banks have a culture problem it is avoiding the underlying issue, according to David Murray....

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Financial planning

The Australian Bankers' Association has imposed a planner hiring protocol for use by members to screen out bad planners....

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Policy & Regulation

Industry Super Australia wants the banks to be subject to rules which impose a duty to ensure customers are left better off when moving super funds....

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Editorial

Federal Opposition leader, Bill Shorten, has declared that a Labor victory will bring forth a Royal Commission into the banks but the reality is that all sections of the ...

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Financial planning

NAB and Westpac may have made the best strategic call by keeping their wealth management businesses as separate entities, according to an academic analysis....

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Financial planning

Banks are struggling to keep pace with fintech disrupters, with only 18.7 per cent of Australians likely to purchase and use new technologies, according to Roy Morgan....

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Funds management

The major banks' cash profit after tax were down three per cent for the first half of 2016, according to KPMG....

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Editorial

The Federal Opposition’s calls for a Royal Commission into the banking industry represents a continuation of a campaign started by industry funds nearly three years ago....

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Policy & Regulation

New data from the World Retail Banking Report is showing that fintech providers are making it increasingly difficult for banks to keep up....

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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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...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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