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Funds management

Commonwealth Bank and ANZ are “the worst” offenders with each lending to projects with emissions equivalent to nearly eight years of Australia’s total greenhouse gas emis...

People & Products

Gary Dransfield, chief executive, insurance (Australia) is to leave Suncorp, as the firm undergoes a leadership restructure. ...

Funds management

As National Australia Bank group chief executive Ross McEwan warns banking will be less profitable in the short-term, which big four bank has recovered best in the three ...

Financial planning

Australia’s Big Four banks have been rated on their COVID-19 responses by consumer advocate Choice, with ANZ performing the worst. ...

Life/Risk

Slater and Gordon have filed a class action against the bank for selling customers “worthless” insurance....

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has been ordered to pay $5 million for failures in their AgriAdvantage Plus Package. ...

People & Products

Count Financial has appointed Chris Burton as practice development manager as the business reaffirms its commitment to growth. ...

Financial planning

Global private equity player KKR is about to pick up 55% of Colonial First State from the Commonwealth Bank and, as Mike Taylor writes, it resolves a lot of challenges fo...

Financial planning

Financial planning and accounting group, CountPlus has received confirmation from the Commonwealth Bank that 35.85% of the company registered to Colonial First State do n...

Life/Risk

The last vestiges of the Commonwealth Bank’s involvement in life insurance has ended with its exit from its 80% stake in an Indonesian life business....

Funds management

IML Investors has said it is reluctant to add exposure to the big four banks as it believes the risk/return in the sector is unappealing....

Funds management

The bank aims to provide $3.5 billion of new lending to climate change solutions over the next three years. ...

Features

Mike Taylor writes that timing is everything and that while Westpac and ANZ have largely cleared their books of their wealth management businesses, the Commonwealth Bank ...

People & Products

A Commonwealth Bank executive and one of the first Chartered Banker graduates in Australia has been appointed to the position....

Features

Mike Taylor writes that the services of experienced financial advisers have never been in greater demand as clients attempt to come to terms with the market volatility be...

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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 ...

5 months ago

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

7 months ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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