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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has moved to increase its hold in the mortgage market, with a guarantee to beat any advertised interest rate from its three major...

Financial planning

The Boutique Financial Planning Principals Group believes Count and PIS financial planners may see merit in the boutique environment....

Financial planning

The Boutique Financial Planning Principals Group believes Count and PIS financial planners may see merit in the boutique environment....

Editorial

The Commonwealth Bank has moved to acquire Count Financial and, as Mike Taylor reports, pragmatism and the realities of the FOFA changes are the driving forces behind the...

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government would be likely to garner grudging (but majority) financial planning industry support for its Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation if it w...

Financial planning

Many clients are currently seeking safer asset classes to protect their wealth from further market downturns. Tamara Radice examines ways in which bond portfolios can del...

Editorial

Many clients are currently seeking safer asset classes to protect their wealth from further market downturns. Tamara Radice examines ways in which bond portfolios can del...

Editorial

Many clients are currently seeking safer asset classes to protect their wealth from further market downturns. Tamara Radice examines ways in which bond portfolios can del...

Financial planning

The Coalition is expected to scrutinise the circumstances under which APRA deputy chairman, Ross Jones, provided an assessment to US diplomats....

Policy & Regulation

The uncertainty created by FOFA was a factor in Count board's decision to recommend CBA bid....

Financial planning

The Australian market will continue to see elevated levels of volatility for the foreseeable future, while there will be a continuation of the concentration within the fi...

Financial planning

Count enters into scheme to be acquired by CBA. ...

People & Products

Bank veteran Stuart Grimshaw will join Bank of Queensland (BOQ) as its new managing director and chief executive officer, following the recent resignation of David Liddy....

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank's annual results have revealed the degree to which its wealth management division has been struggling in tough markets....

Financial planning

Nervous investors are moving into cash and term deposits as the result of uncertainty in the stock market....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 2 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

4 months 2 weeks ago

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

6 months 3 weeks 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. ...

1 week 6 days ago

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

5 days 13 hours ago

ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

6 days 16 hours ago