COMMONWEALTH BANK

Financial planning

With the Commonwealth Bank’s planned exit from Financial Wisdom and the sale of Count Financial, all eyes have turned to the future of Colonial First State....

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has declared its intention to cease the Financial Wisdom license in June, next year....

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Financial planning

National Australia Bank has paid out over $32 million in customer remediation as at 30 June, 2019, part of total $119m paid out by Australia’s five largest banks. ...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that new research conducted by Money Management has confirmed general acceptance of the convergence of accounting and advice but only on the right term...

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Financial planning

With the Commonwealth Bank confirming via its Pathways exit its intention to exit its wealth management businesses over time, attention has turned to the future of Financ...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has cleared the way for exiting its self-employed adviser ‘Pathways’ franchise following issues initially notified to the Australian Competition and...

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Financial planning

The degree of commercial pain being felt by financial planning dealer groups has been laid bare in the documentation surrounding the CountPlus acquisition of Count Financ...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has begun the sell-down of its wealth management assets with the sale of Count Financial to associated and independently publicly-listed firm, Count...

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People & Products

Frontier Advisors has announced it has made five new appointments to its consulting team....

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Financial planning

Customer satisfaction among the big four banks is improving for the first time since the Royal Commission, according to Roy Morgan research....

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Funds management

Commonwealth Bank has reported a 28 per cent fall in third-quarter cash profit from continuing operations of $1.7 billion as a result of $714 million in customer remediat...

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Financial planning

ASIC has released the final report on the Commonwealth Bank’s compliance with additional licence conditions that were imposed regarding advice compensation, written by Ko...

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Funds management

An AMP shareholder has called on other shareholders to reject the company chair, David Murray’s, election bid at next month’s AGM, saying that AMP’s decision to divest fr...

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Features

Two of the major banks may have exited their wealth businesses and two more may be on their way out, but Mike Taylor writes that they have astutely kept the sweetest mors...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has signalled the degree to which it will be changing its platform arrangements to overcome fee for no service problems....

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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 ...

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