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Superannuation
Senior industry fund identities have pointed to competitive tensions with the major banks and the possibility of becoming mutual banks....
Funds management
Despite reporting a higher level of customer satisfaction, the mutual banking sector has been less successful at capturing customer dollars compared to the four major ban...
People & Products
BT Investment Management has named a new chairman as Brian Scullin announces his retirement....
Financial planning
Morningstar analysis paints the big four banks as being an oligopoly which is stronger now than before the GFC....
Editorial
After a substantial part of the year when employers and employees seem to have been marking time in terms of job recruitment, things may be about to change, write Andrew ...
Financial planning
More than a million customers have ended their relationship with a financial institution in the past year, with ANZ reporting the highest proportion among the major four ...
Funds management
Macquarie Group has reaped the benefits of integrating Perpetual’s Private Wealth Platform into its wrap business, recording a 46.7 per cent increase in retail managed fu...
Financial planning
Submissions to the Senate inquiry into ASIC are revealing a wide range of complaints against not only the regulator but banks and insurers....
Financial planning
Investor worries about financial markets are under control while market return expectations have jumped, writes Recep Peker....
Superannuation
New research shows AMP Group has had very little success at selling banking products to its superannuation customers, unlike the Big Four. ...
Editorial
While a recent Money Management/Association of Financial Advisers thought leadership breakfast traversed the manner in which FOFA has accelerated the penetration of techn...
Financial planning
AMP Capital Community Infrastructure Fund picks up 49.99 per cent equity in Queensland schools PPP. ...
Editorial
Countplus records a steady full-year result but indicates caution on the post-election environment....
Financial planning
The Commonwealth Bank has finished the last financial year with $7.6 billion in net profit after tax, and an earnings boost for its wealth management division. ...
Financial planning
Non-aligned mortgage brokers now provide around 23 per cent of all home loans to borrowers, according to the Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia (MFAA)....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...