Industry silent as public makes feelings on ASIC known. ...
ASIC claims it had concerns about the quality of financial advice being delivered in Australia before the collapse of Storm and the Commonwealth FP enforceable undertakin...
While recent media reports have painted a less than flattering picture of its former culture, it is important to recognise that Commonwealth Financial Planning has come a...
While political leaders came and went and further regulation rumbled through, it seemed the financial planning sector spent the last 12 months in a holding pattern with m...
The chairman of the Senate Committee reviewing ASIC laments that its greatest successes appear to have occurred after the damage has already been done....
When Commonwealth Financial Planning was subjected to an enforceable undertaking imposed by ASIC in 2011, it was the subject of a good deal of media coverage in Money Man...
The so-called “fifth pillar” of Australia’s banking sector, AMP, now owns the two biggest dealer groups in Australia....
Despite the Parliament having risen for the winter recess, and probably for the last time before a Federal election, it will nonetheless be difficult to keep politics out...
ASIC takes the unusual step of using the weekend to announce a new focus on analyst briefings....
ASIC may have to explain to a Parliamentary Committee why, when its resources are stretched, it has expended effort reviewing the operations of an independent statutory b...
ASIC points to conflicted, commission-driven culture at Commonwealth Financial Planning five years ago....
The Senate Committee reviewing ASIC will be looking well beyond the issues of the 2011 Commonwealth Financial Planning enforceable undertaking. ...
Daily media coverage of the events leading up to the CFP enforceable undertaking generates moves for another Parliamentary inquiry....
The new remuneration model announced by Commonwealth Financial Planning will assess advisers on both financial and non-financial performance, and will see the introductio...
Commonwealth Financial Planning changes planner remuneration, ending trailing commissions. ...
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...