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Financial planning

Shareholders must foot bill for tough times: FSU

Shareholders’ unwillingness to “take a hit” in tough economic times is almost solely responsible for a wave of offshoring plaguing the wealth management space, the Financ...

Funds management

Fund Manager of the Year 2014: Marketing Team of the Year

CommInsure has been named winner of the Marketing Team of the Year for its work across five separate issues faced by the group in the past 12 months....

Superannuation

CSSA backs wholesale remuneration solution

Corporate superannuation specialists are urging the Federal Government to make employers using the funds wholesale rather than retail clients, to remove conflicts for adv...

Financial planning

Comm FP faces more action by red-faced ASIC

An embarrassed ASIC has imposed license conditions on Comm FP and Financial Wisdom as short-comings in compensation arrangements are revealed....

Financial planning

CBA regrets inappropriate advice

CBA says it has worked with customers to “put things right”, after the corporate regulator moved to address inconsistent compensation to customers of two CBA-owned planni...

Financial planning

Fund manager brands BT platform as lacking transparency

Sirius Funds Management has branded BT Wrap as lacking in transparency and accused it of failing to divulge client information. ...

Funds management

CFS launches first SMA via CBA

Colonial First State launches the group’s first Separately Managed Account to be offered through a Commonwealth Bank-owned advice group....

Editorial

ANZ expected to take the lead in results season

ANZ has been tipped to outshine its commercial banking competitors this reporting season with the strongest underlying profit growth among the Big Four, an estimate shows...

Editorial

Financial reform demands financial literacy

A common theme of submissions to the Financial Systems Review is a call for higher levels of financial literacy, but this needs to be coupled with a message around the va...