COMMONWEALTH BANK

Policy & Regulation

The exit of the major banks means the original funding source for the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority will mostly dry up in May next year with advisers t...

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Superannuation

Former Colonial First State executive director, Linda Elkins may have left the company and become a partner at KPMG but she has been named in a class action filing....

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Financial planning

The Australian stock market fell by more than 3.5% last week over fears of escalations in the US/China trade war. ...

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Funds management

Advisers continue to make the make exposure to the Big Four banks a staple within client portfolios and the performance of the Commonwealth Bank explains why, according t...

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Funds management

Colonial First State Global Asset Management has been rebranded to First Sentier Investors as it completes its sale from the Commonwealth Bank....

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Life/Risk

The Commonwealth Bank has reset key elements of the transaction around the sale of CommInsure to AIA Australia, including a $150 million reduction in the sale price....

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that the Australian financial advice industry is embarking on a transition which will be completed in 2024 with the result that it will be very differe...

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Financial planning

A senior financial services lawyer has warned that managed accounts may equate to the selling of in-house assets in the eyes of the Australian Securities and Investments ...

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Policy & Regulation

Allianz Australia has been hit by a $250 million additional capital requirement by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority....

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that scores of financial advisers will be left looking for new licensees in the wake of this month’s announcements by the Commonwealth Bank and AMP Li...

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Outsider

It is possibly a measure of Outsider’s recent bout of insomnia (perhaps the Ashes is being played in mother England) that he found himself reading the so-called ‘Promonto...

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Outsider

Outsider was among those who were somewhat surprised that the Commonwealth Bank opted to close down the Financial Wisdom license rather than sell it....

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Funds management

The Commonwealth Bank has announced it will divest from thermal coal by 2030, after being one of the heaviest lenders to coal, oil, and gas, according to Market Forces. ...

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Financial planning

With the Commonwealth Bank’s planned exit from Financial Wisdom and the sale of Count Financial, all eyes have turned to the future of Colonial First State....

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has declared its intention to cease the Financial Wisdom license in June, next year....

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

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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

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increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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