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Financial planning

Commbank has continued to perform despite some struggles within its wealth management businesses....

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People & Products

Challenger announces new strategy role for Rob Woods and recruits Commbank’s Ian Saines as CEO, Funds Management....

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Financial planning

Product manufacturers need to ensure their services and compliance procedures are up to standard, with ASIC set to take a hard-line approach in 2015, according to legal e...

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Superannuation

The CBA has awarded a $200 million global equity mandate to London-based equity firm Ardevora Asset Management....

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Financial planning

Despite a year of controversy and negative publicity the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has reclaimed its position as the country’s top bank in the Brand Finance Ba...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank makes clear that former CommFP clients retain access to its Open Advice Review program irrespective of changing advisers. ...

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People & Products

Investment management firm PIMCO has appointed Dr Laura Ryan as vice president, client analytics....

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Financial planning

Non-major lenders dominated the home loan market in January and notched up the highest proportion of home loans since the GFC, mortgage broker AFG revealed....

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People & Products

Investec Australia announced it has appointed Malcolm Ezzy as a managing director in its corporate advisory business....

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Accounting

ASIC must forge a tighter relationship with the industry it regulates if it is to improve effectiveness of its regulation, according to CPA Australia and Chartered Accoun...

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Financial planning

Law firm Maurice Blackburn has issued a warning on the Macquarie client compensation processes and the dangers of vertically integrated advice....

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Financial planning

A former Commonwealth Bank financial planner will have her compensation claim for an injury sustained at a motel following a team meeting reassessed following an appeal....

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People & Products

Bank of Queensland (BOQ) has appointed Jon Sutton as managing director and chief executive officer, effective immediately....

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank’s financial advice remediation program has attracted more than 4500 cases from aggrieved customers in its first few months, an independent review ha...

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Financial planning

The AIST has called on the Government to draw a distinction between bank aligned and independent financial planners....

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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 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 ago

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

1 week 6 days ago

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

3 weeks ago