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Features

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...

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Policy & Regulation

The banks would be compelled out of the wealth management industry and AMP would have to break up its operations under policy proposals flagged by the Australian Greens i...

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Financial planning

National Australia Bank may have confirmed the exit of its chief executive and chairman but it has acknowledged it still does not know how much client remediation will co...

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Financial planning

NAB chief executive, Andrew Thorburn, has defended some fees for no service charged by the bank as a “process issue” rather than dishonesty, as he came under fire at the ...

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Financial planning

The financial planning landscape is facing a tectonic shift as the major banks look to exit their wealth management business, something underlined in Money Management’s l...

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Financial planning

National Australia Bank and MLC Limited were prepared to rely on the attestations of their financial advisers to help determine whether to refund clients on the basis of ...

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Financial planning

NAB/MLC sought to retain grandfathered payments within a superannuation successor fund transfer for fear of losing financial planners and their clients....

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Superannuation

A key witness for NULIS and MLC/NAB, Paul Carter, has admitted to the Royal Commission that adviser contribution fees imposed by the fund were “best described as a commis...

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News

The former chief executive and managing director of Perpetual has been appointed the new CEO of MLC, effective 1 September 2018....

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Superannuation

The Finance Sector Union of Australia has expressed concerns about National Australia Bank’s moves to sell off its wealth division....

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People & Products

MLC executive, Lara Bourguignon has been recruited to a key superannuation role at AMP Limited....

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People & Products

MLC Life Insurance has appointed Sarv Girn to the newly created role of chief innovation and transformation officer. ...

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Features

Oksana Patron writes that out of the highest charging international equity funds, only one fund performed in the first quartile for the year to 31 July 2017. This is part...

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Superannuation

MLC has called on Australians to maximise their super balances and thus not slip into ‘retirement poverty’....

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Financial planning

A former NAB financial adviser has appeared in court after ASIC brought two charges against him that he forged financial planning documents....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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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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Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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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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