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Financial planning

Drawing out unethical behaviour within the planning industry hinges on frameworks to support whistleblowers, who are largely dispirited under current governance structure...

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Financial planning

More than 4000 customers of the CBA's planning businesses have registered for a review of the financial advice they received following the launch of the Open Advice Revie...

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Financial planning

Commonwealth Bank of Australia consumers who have not claimed funds left on expired Travel Money Cards within 12 months of the expiry will no longer forfeit the cash to t...

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Policy & Regulation

Legislation enshrining the Government’s FOFA reforms should be delayed until after the FSI’s final report is issued, Labor believes....

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Financial planning

The FSI will not change anything and the status quo will be maintained, according to a finance/insurance broker....

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Superannuation

Funds under management and advice with retail and superannuation funds surpassing the $1 trillion mark in the year to June 2014, research from DEXX&R reveals....

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Editorial

The major institutions are right to take the lead on lifting educational standards in the financial planning space....

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Editorial

While ASIC continues to press for more powers with respect to bank management staff and product design, Mike Taylor writes that the real answer lies in successfully separ...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has used its second FSI submission to back a US-style approach to the implementation of a natioanl register of financial planners....

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Financial planning

FOS implements its ‘significant event response plan’ as it prepares for significant numbers of related disputes from scandals linked to the planning arms of CBA and Macqu...

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Financial planning

Efforts by the Commonwealth Bank, AMP and NAB/MLC to lift planners’ educational and ethical standards have been lauded by the FPA as evidence its drive towards industry p...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has moved to inject plaintiff law firms into its advice review processes....

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Financial planning

NAB/MLC has joined the push to lift planner education standards....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the Commonwealth Bank’s results announcement and its continued standing in the eyes of consumers suggests its financial planning woes have represe...

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Financial planning

Countplus signals targeting of underpeforming member firms and possible restructuring....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

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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