COMMONWEALTH FINANCIAL PLANNING
People & Products
Former Commonwealth Financial Planning executive manager, Nathan Stanton, will head up Western Pacific Financial Group - a dealer group owned by SFG Australia....
Financial planning
Traditional planning processes often fail to take into account the psychology and specific needs of women, according to CBA executive general manager of advice, Marianne ...
Policy & Regulation
The dawning realisation that grandfathering arrangements may be put in jeopardy is likely to create a spike in the number of planners changing dealer groups before 30 Jun...
Editorial
A small number of bad apples in the financial services industry once again managed to attract significant attention in 2012....
Financial planning
He may be young, but he's got what it takes. William Johns is the runner-up of this year's Financial Planner of the Year award....
Financial planning
With dealer groups looking to service untapped markets, rural and regional Australia could represent a perfect growth opportunity for financial planners....
Editorial
The financial planning industry is a diverse organism not well understood by the media and other industry outsiders and advisers need to remember this....
Financial planning
The consolidation within the financial planning dealer group space is a potential concern for research houses over the long-term, but at the moment it's business as usual...
Financial planning
In the latest outcome of its investigation, ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from former Commonwealth Financial Planning employee Joe Chan. ...
Funds management
Each year the Money Management BDM of the Year attracts an outstanding group of candidates, and this year's state winners were no exception....
Financial planning
ASIC has permanently banned a former Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser after he was found to have forged the signatures of four of his clients....
Financial planning
A former Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser has been permanently banned by ASIC after it was found he had forged the signatures of four of his clients....
Financial planning
ASIC has banned a former Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser from providing financial services for five years, making it three former Commonwealth advisers banned in ...
Financial planning
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has affirmed ASIC's decision to ban former Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser Don Nguyen from providing financial services for se...
Financial planning
ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from a Commonwealth Financial Planning financial adviser that sees him banned from financial services for two years for faili...
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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...