EXECUTIVE GENERAL MANAGER

Financial planning

Financial advisers will be given access to annuities through platforms, as demand for annuities increases. ...

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Life/Risk

Life insurance manufacturers need to take responsibility for last week’s ASIC report into life insurance and supply products that meet consumer needs and not research hou...

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Financial planning

Commbank Wealth Management head, Annabel Spring says the group will remain focused on its existing strategy....

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Accounting

Lloyd Morgan survey shows women still lag behind men when it comes to disparity in bonus payments in the accounting profession but the gap has closed by 60 per cent in th...

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People & Products

NAB’s new CEO has wasted no time in reshuffling his leadership team, appointing four new executives on lower salary packages than their predecessors. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has refused to conede that the Government’s FOFA changes will generate more risk....

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has moved to lift education standards for planners, supervisors and managers of planners....

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Superannuation

While conventional wisdom holds that cash-focused SMSFs lag conventional funds, new data suggests otherwise. ...

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Superannuation

APRA has admitted it doesn’t monitor the expenses of superannuation fund executives or trustees....

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Funds management

Investment consultant JANA and MLC Investment Management are coming together to create an investment research, advisory, and portfolio management business, NAB has announ...

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People & Products

Former head of sales retail wealth products at MLC Ross Barnwell has been promoted to general manager of advice partnerships....

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Financial planning

Poor culture in large financial services organisations could be holding women back from leadership roles, industry executives believe....

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Funds management

Consolidation and the impact of regulatory reform on the advice market prompt slight restructure at CFS....

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People & Products

Swiss Re senior executive Helen Troup named as incoming CommInsure executive general manager ...

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People & Products

National Australia Bank has signed senior ANZ executive Justin Greiner as chief executive officer of its broking business JBWere....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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

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

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