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People & Products

Grant McCorquodale has joined FIIG Securities as its head of personal and intermediary clients, including financial planners....

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Financial planning

ASIC has appointed KordaMentha Forensic to identify high risk advisers within Commonwealth Financial Planning and Financial Wisdom and to review the licence conditions of...

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Financial planning

Another new start-up hoping to be the TripAdvisor of the financial advice space is encouraging advisers to use its platform to cash in on the poor service of their counte...

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Financial planning

The CBA has used its AGM to stress the "vigour" with which it approached its recently-launched advice remediation program, admitting it responded far too slowly to consum...

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Funds management

Macquarie Group has emerged as Australia’s largest fund manager and 52nd ranked manager in the world, but IFM Investors is growing in Australian influence....

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Superannuation

An industry super fund representing the timber trade says it will use the CBA’s AGM to oppose the re-election of two CBA board members who served during the advice scanda...

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Financial planning

The FPA has reported a 100 per cent surge in its CFP program take up after the CBA and AMP raised educational standards following scandals at the CBA and Macquarie Bank....

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Editorial

The Commonwealth Bank has shrugged off its challenges to post a solid quarter....

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth bank has extended the customer contact element of its Open Advice Review and confirmed that three of the nation’s most high profile plaintive law firms a...

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Awards

A strong community spirit and a passion for helping others has been a core driver for the nominees in the Pro Bono category. ...

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Financial planning

The recent push by financial services institutions to lift education standards has resulted in women making up a majority of those being trained....

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Financial planning

The Government has rejected a Royal Commission into Commonwealth FP claiming the bank’s Open Advice Review Program should be allowed to work....

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Financial planning

The CBA will require its aligned advisers and licensees to hold qualifications in planning-related disciplines as part of its move towards higher education standards. ...

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Financial planning

CBA is on the verge of losing the top spot for customer satisfaction, months after calls for a Royal Commission into its two of its planning businesses, a snapshot shows....

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Editorial

Financial planners gave mixed reactions to reports that a company related to real estate icon, Ray White, would be venturing into the financial planning space but is the ...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

4 months 1 week ago

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

3 weeks 1 day ago

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

2 weeks ago

One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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