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Financial planning

Law firm Levitt Robinson argues the compensation arrangements being negotiated between former Storm Financial clients and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia will not achi...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has urged an extension of the intra-fund advice relief to financial planners arguing they are better qualified to meet the needs of members than tru...

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Financial planning

Slater and Gordon hopes the deal struck between the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and its clients registered with the Storm Resolution Scheme will encourage other banks ...

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Financial planning

Abacus Australian Mutuals has added to the rising discontent with banks, describing recent profit results as a "slap in the face to hardworking Australians"....

Financial planning

In the second major resignation this morning, Tyndall managing director Brett Himbury is departing to head Industry Funds Management....

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Financial planning

Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief executive Ralph Norris has delivered a cautious outlook for the economy while pointing to the recovery of the bank's key divisions in...

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People & Products

Darelle Jenkins has been appointed as national manager, AdviserNETgain, effective from February 8....

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Financial planning

Financial services companies scaled back political donations last fiscal year, according to the latest data from the Australian Electoral Commission....

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Editorial

The global recession generated by the sub-prime crisis has served to reinforce the dominance of Australia’s major banks across almost all segments of the nation’s financi...

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Editorial

While much of the debate around NAB/MLC’s acquisition of AXA Asia Pacific has focused on who controls which dealer group, Mike Taylor argues that control of the platforms...

Financial planning

All four of the big banks saw a fall in satisfaction levels from their business banking clients in the second half of 2009, according to a business banking customer satis...

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Financial planning

Balmain Trilogy has announced a big write-down for Pacific First Mortgage Fund, and has attributed blame to the former responsible entity, City Pacific....

Financial planning

Financial Services Partners (FSP) will launch its private broker network, which will assist its advisers with business growth, acquisitions and succession planning....

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Financial planning

Storm Financial co-founders Emmanuel and Julie Cassimatis seemed to be suffering from a bout of absent mindedness in the final days of hearings into the company's collaps...

Financial planning

CoreData research has confirmed that the major banks are dominating the mortgage market, with Westpac and Commonwealth Bank holding 48.9 per cent of all outstanding resid...

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