National Australia Bank has paid out over $32 million in customer remediation as at 30 June, 2019, part of total $119m paid out by Australia’s five largest banks. ...
Mike Taylor writes that new research conducted by Money Management has confirmed general acceptance of the convergence of accounting and advice but only on the right term...
With the Commonwealth Bank confirming via its Pathways exit its intention to exit its wealth management businesses over time, attention has turned to the future of Financ...
The Commonwealth Bank has cleared the way for exiting its self-employed adviser ‘Pathways’ franchise following issues initially notified to the Australian Competition and...
The degree of commercial pain being felt by financial planning dealer groups has been laid bare in the documentation surrounding the CountPlus acquisition of Count Financ...
The Commonwealth Bank has begun the sell-down of its wealth management assets with the sale of Count Financial to associated and independently publicly-listed firm, Count...
Frontier Advisors has announced it has made five new appointments to its consulting team....
Customer satisfaction among the big four banks is improving for the first time since the Royal Commission, according to Roy Morgan research....
Commonwealth Bank has reported a 28 per cent fall in third-quarter cash profit from continuing operations of $1.7 billion as a result of $714 million in customer remediat...
ASIC has released the final report on the Commonwealth Bank’s compliance with additional licence conditions that were imposed regarding advice compensation, written by Ko...
An AMP shareholder has called on other shareholders to reject the company chair, David Murray’s, election bid at next month’s AGM, saying that AMP’s decision to divest fr...
Two of the major banks may have exited their wealth businesses and two more may be on their way out, but Mike Taylor writes that they have astutely kept the sweetest mors...
The Commonwealth Bank has signalled the degree to which it will be changing its platform arrangements to overcome fee for no service problems....
The Commonwealth Bank has put its wealth demerger on hold to allow it time to complete its client remediation processes....
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled using its new directions power in the face of the slow response of AMP and the major banks to follow-up...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...