COMMONWEALTH BANK

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has targeted late 2019 for completing the demerger of its wealth assets after reporting a solid September quarter....

Life/Risk

The Commonwealth Bank has exited virtually all of its insurance exposures with the sale of 80 per cent of its Indonesian life insurance business....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission said it will commence a review of school banking programs in primary schools....

People & Products

Payments fintech, Beem It, has appointed a former Commonwealth Bank executive as its new chief executive officer....

Life/Risk

Commonwealth Bank has completed the sale of its life insurance business in New Zealand to AIA Group Limited....

Editorial

The Commonwealth Bank’s announcement about how it will demerge its Colonial First State and other wealth businesses brings an end to an 18-year strategy, which started as...

Life/Risk

New data released by Dexx&r has confirmed that exiting bank ownership has paid dividends for MLC Life barely two years after being substantially divested by NAB....

Funds management

The Commonwealth Bank is to exit its Colonial First State Global Asset Management business via a public float on the Australian Securities Exchange....

Policy & Regulation

The regulator has accepted an enforceable undertaking from Commonwealth Financial Planning and BW Financial Advice for charging fees to customers for advice reviews that ...

Financial planning

New data has confirmed the degree to which the Government’s $1.6 million pension cap has choked flows into retirement income....

People & Products

Commonwealth Bank announces board changes as part of its renewal process....

Financial planning

A strong performance by its Wealth Division has helped the Commonwealth Bank record another increased half-year profit despite provisioning of more than $500 million for ...

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Treasurer, Scott Morrison, has cited the impending passage of the Bank Executive Accountability Regime when discussing the appointment of a new Commonwealth B...

People & Products

The Commonwealth Bank has appointed an internal candidate, Retail Bank head, Matt Comyn, as its new CEO....

Financial planning

Ten per cent of advice files from the major banks and AMP sampled by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission proved to be of significant concern....

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

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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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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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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. ...

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