NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK

Editorial

With the private equity 'barbarians' rattling Perpetual's gates, Mike Taylor writes that there will be plenty of interest in the future of the company's Private Wealth bu...

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Financial planning

FIIG Securities' Stephen Hart examines fixed income assets and explores the arguments relating to direct investment or the use of managed funds....

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Editorial

ANZ reports strong profit but remains low-key on growth in wealth management....

Financial planning

AXA Asia Pacific has recorded a less than stellar nine months in Australia and New Zealand amid the speculation around the abortive National Australia Bank bid....

Financial planning

Environmental organisation Greenpeace has hit the big four banks with its latest report, which found they are the biggest financiers of coal power in Australia....

Editorial

Nobody should be terribly surprised that AMP turned suddenly coy in its desire to acquire AXA Asia Pacific. It was all part of a renewed corporate mating ritual....

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Financial planning

ACCC chairman, Graeme Samuel has defended the time taken and the processes pursued in the decision to veto NAB’s acquisition of AXA AP....

Financial planning

Dealer groups, including those owned by Colonial First State and BT, are investing more in their internal research teams as part of a broad move to take greater responsib...

Funds management

It costs anywhere between $30 million and $100 million to establish a retail investment platform and the ACCC believes no new players will be ready to ante up – par...

Financial planning

A national advertising campaign to be run by AXA Asia Pacific over the next fortnight seeks to make a silver lining out of the ACCC’s blocking of its proposed marri...

Financial planning

With few regulatory hurdles in the way, AMP is expected to announce a renewed bid for AXA AP....

Life/Risk

NAB promotes the leader of insurance business at NAB and MLC, Andrew Hagger, to its group executive committee....

Financial planning

Competition in the retail investment platform market remained at the heart of the ACCC’s concerns, with IOOF deemed unable to provide the necessary competitive dyna...

Financial planning

The ACCC has maintained its initial opposition to NAB's acquisition of AXA Asia Pacific....

Financial planning

The finance sector’s gender pay gap is 28 per cent, the worst in Australia....

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2 months 3 weeks ago

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

3 months ago

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

5 months ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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