FINANCIAL WISDOM

Financial planning

Commonwealth Bank costs related to aligned advice remediation have surpassed $1 billion while it has increased Count remediation for a second time in less than six months...

Financial planning

A former Financial Wisdom practice is looking to the Commonwealth Bank to make good over $33,000 which was overlooked as the big banking group closed down the license....

Financial planning

Breaches of the Future of Financial Advice rules will sit at the centre of class actions being formulated against the Commonwealth Bank, AMP and Westpac and a number of t...

Features

Mike Taylor writes that timing is everything and that while Westpac and ANZ have largely cleared their books of their wealth management businesses, the Commonwealth Bank ...

Financial planning

Dealer groups are looking to grow their footprints on the back of the influx of advisers expected from the changes at AMP, the Commonwealth Bank and elsewhere....

Outsider

Outsider was among those who were somewhat surprised that the Commonwealth Bank opted to close down the Financial Wisdom license rather than sell it....

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....

Financial planning

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

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has confirmed its exit from Financial Wisdom at the same time as announcing an 8.1 per cent decline in full-year net profit after tax....

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...

Financial planning

Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned former Financial Wisdom advisor Anneliese Ada Willmott....

Financial planning

A Hobart financial planner who was not sufficiently trained, despite holding a Diploma of Financial Planning from Kaplan, or competent to provide financial services has b...

Financial planning

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

Features

Money Management conducted a roundtable in which key participants discussed the evolving impact the rise of managed accounts has had on planning and platforms....

Financial planning

Eureka Whittaker Macnaught, licenced with Financial Wisdom, acquired Ken Mann’s financial planning practice on the NSW Central Coast....

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