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Westpac chief executive, Brian Hartzer has confirmed that senior executives within BT Financial Group suffered significant remuneration consequences for issues raised at ...
Financial planning
Commonwealth Bank chief executive, Matt Comyn has cited fee for no service as being one of the bank’s key shortcomings and claimed key executive personnel had failed to u...
Policy & Regulation
Commonwealth Bank chief executive, Matt Comyn has questioned the quality of some of the bank’s previous senior executives, suggesting some had not represented appropriate...
Financial planning
Commonwealth Bank senior executive, Marianne Perkovic formally told the bank’s chief executive, Matt Comyn that she was disappointed she did not speak up loud enough to m...
Policy & Regulation
The Royal Commission will today begin its final round of hearings looking at what caused the misconduct and what can be done to fix those causes....
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has pointed to the recent adverse publicity around the financial services industry having driven up the level of whis...
Financial planning
FSU national secretary Julia Angrisano has slammed NAB as being “breathtaking” in its hypocrisy, following reported admissions that its CEO breached its policies with lit...
Features
Mike Taylor looks at the policy environment facing financial planners as they prepare to enter 2019 and concludes that they are facing almost unprecedented levels of unce...
Expert Analysis
As a year dominated by the Royal Commission draws to a close, Jenny Johanson looks at what the industry needs to do to rebuild trust, improve governance, and bounce back ...
Outsider
Outsider sends a big yuletide shout out to former Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia boss, Pauline Vamos, for taking on what might possibly be one of the bi...
Financial planning
Independent Financial Advisers are emerging as winners from the Royal Commission as clients shift away from bank-aligned advisers....
Superannuation
Australia could be left with as few as 25 or 30 major superannuation funds in the next decade as changes roll through the industry, not least those resulting from the Roy...
Financial planning
University of Technology Sydney has announced it would introduce a new Master of Financial Planning in 2019 open to both new entrants and existing planners. ...
Financial planning
Big industry fund, AustralianSuper has called for an end to grandfathering and for a legal obligation on superannuation funds to provide members with an annual report of ...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association's Conduct Review Commission has fined former member, Sam Henderson $50,000 for breaching the FPA code of conduct....
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...