COMMONWEALTH BANK

People & Products

Anne Ward, chair of Colonial First State and Avanteos Investments, will retire from the board at the end of the year as the Commonwealth Bank looks to sell CFS to KKR....

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Funds management

Buy now, pay later stocks like Afterpay, Sezzle and Zip may have hit their ceiling as increased competition from established financial firms enter the market....

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has been hit with another class action – this time involving CommInsure products recommended by Commonwealth Financial Planning and Financial Wisdom...

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Funds management

Profitability at the big four banks is expected to remain under pressure for the next 18 months, according to ratings agency Fitch. ...

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Financial planning

Substantially exiting its wealth management businesses has helped the Commonwealth Bank post a solid result despite the pressures of COVID-19....

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Financial planning

Breaches of the Future of Financial Advice rules will sit at the centre of class actions being formulated against the Commonwealth Bank, AMP and Westpac and a number of t...

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People & Products

Research firm Investment Trends chief executive, Michael Blomfield, has been appointed to the newly-created role....

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People & Products

Wendy Cox has been appointed to the newly-created role of head of finance and HR, while Lata McNulty has been promoted to the newly-created role of chief risk officer by ...

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People & Products

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has partnered with Zetta Ventures Partners and Square Pegg to deliver new digital banking services, and X15 Ventures who will launch sm...

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Funds management

Commonwealth Bank and ANZ are “the worst” offenders with each lending to projects with emissions equivalent to nearly eight years of Australia’s total greenhouse gas emis...

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People & Products

Maple-Brown Abbott Global Listed Infrastructure has appointed an ESG analyst and senior research analyst. ...

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Life/Risk

Slater and Gordon have filed a class action against the bank for selling customers “worthless” insurance....

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has been ordered to pay $5 million for failures in their AgriAdvantage Plus Package. ...

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Financial planning

Financial planning and accounting group, CountPlus has received confirmation from the Commonwealth Bank that 35.85% of the company registered to Colonial First State do n...

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Life/Risk

The last vestiges of the Commonwealth Bank’s involvement in life insurance has ended with its exit from its 80% stake in an Indonesian life business....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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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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Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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The Federal Court has made interim orders to freeze the assets of a managed investment scheme, its responsible entity, and a director....

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