While global dividends rose to new record in 2019, Australia had a difficult year with dividends falling 3.3%....
As two major banks announced their financial results this week, it’s a tale of two diverging share prices for Commonwealth Bank and National Australia Bank....
Compensation paid by the six largest banking and financial services institutions for fee-for-no-service and non-compliant advice is at $749.7 million, according to the co...
Adrian Cassidy has been banned for acting dishonestly by concealing from his licensee recommendations he gave clients to invest in a failed start-up....
Former AMP and NAB authorised representative David O’Brien has been banned for failing to make sufficient inquiries into his client’s circumstances....
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has taken Federal Court action against National Australia Bank citing several thousand contraventions with respect to...
Three months after the resignation of Matthew Rowe the Government has looked to former NAB Wealth executive, Will Hamilton, to fill the vacant industry spot on the board ...
South Australian adviser Wendy Chapman has been banned for five years, while Queensland adviser Nina Williams has received a one-year ban....
In the wake of its money-laundering scandal, most funds that had a high allocation towards the bank managed to recover losses indicating the resilience of big banks....
The burden of client remediation has made the date for National Australia Bank’s exit from its wealth management highly uncertain and it could be later than 2021....
Self-employed advisers working under National Australia Bank will find themselves moved to annual fee agreements in the first half of next year....
ASIC has banned former Apogee and ANZ financial adviser Adrian Khaw who advised clients to use an SMSF and use LRBAs to purchase a property....
The bank experienced a 10.8% reduction on cash earnings in FY19 due to spending $1.1 billion on customer remediation and had changes in its software capitalisation policy...
There will be no pay increases or bonuses this financial year for National Australia Bank’s most senior executives....
The exit of the major banks means the original funding source for the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority will mostly dry up in May next year with advisers t...
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...