The misdeeds which occurred within Commonwealth Financial Planning have become a stalking horse for those seeking to prevent any amendments to FOFA....
The financial planning industry suffered substantial collateral damage as a result of the collapse of Storm Financial but, as Mike Taylor reports, last week’s Senate Comm...
The Minister for Finance and Acting Assistant Treasruer, Senator Mathias Cormann, has confirmed meeting with Commonwealth Bank chief, Ian Narev, and impressing on the ban...
Former investment manager linked to failed superannuation fund Trio Capital, Tony Maher, was sentenced to 25 months jail for financial gain through misleading statements....
Commonwealth Bank chief executive, Ian Narev has promised a detailed response to last week’s scathing Senate Committee report as Financial Services Minsiter, Senator Math...
ASIC says a royal commission into its handling of Commonwealth Financial Planning (CommFP) scandal would divert resources from other investigations it's currently pursuin...
The Senate Committee reviewing the performance of ASIC has recommended a royal commission into the Commonwealth Financial Planning debacle....
The lead auditor for the Banksia Financial Group will be barred from practising for five years as part of the ongoing investigation into the group being conducted by the ...
ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft admits ambiguity led to CommFP client compensation failures, but claims the bank was not “upfront”....
Mike Taylor writes that the board of the Commonwealth Bank must be wondering how it was possible for the controversy around Commonwealth Financial Planning to get worse....
ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from a Gold Coast advisory group related to deficiencies in monitoring and supervising its planners...
As Commonwealth FP again finds itself in the media spotlight, the FPA has defended the manner in which it has handled members who broke bad....
ASIC tells a Senate Committee that while Commonwealth Financial Planning has lived up to its enforceable undertaking requirements, further work is required on its breach ...
An enforceable undertaking is one of the major challenges that can confront a financial services business, writes Grant Holley, but it need not be a nightmare and can be ...
Commonwealth Financial Planning whistleblower Jeffrey Morris claims ASIC failed to act to cover its own incompetence....
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
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,...