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Advisers must be extremely diligent about ensuring they fulfill their duty of care, as two recent court cases have shown. David Glen runs through the post-FOFA adviser ch...

Funds management

Financial services group Hunter Hall has announced it is screening out and ending investment in fossil fuel companies....

Financial planning

New Roy Morgan research suggests Commbank has not been too badly mauled by recent bad publicity around planning....

Funds management

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a trader employed at Westpac Institutional Bank for creating fictitious trading entries and a false...

Funds management

Former head of BT, Rob Coombe, claims funds management groups operate better when not under bank control. ...

Editorial

BTFG has emerged as a solid contributor to Westpac’s solid six month result....

Financial planning

The attributes that companies are seeking in financial planners are drastically changing, with sales no longer a must-have skill, writes Milana Pokrajac. ...

Financial planning

Satisfaction from bank customers is at an 18-year high, but that could be about to change....

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that Government Senators are sending plenty of messages about impending changes aimed at opening up the default funds under modern awards regime. ...

Funds management

After five years of negative quarterly cash flows, retail FUM appear to be gaining momentum – recording growth for the third consecutive quarter....

Financial planning

The union representing financial services workers calls members to share their stories amid Westpac’s claims the sales targets are reasonable. ...

Editorial

As we enter the post-global financial crisis era, investor confidence is returning and interest rates are staying at record lows. But has the lustre worn off term deposit...

Financial planning

ANZ has retained its title as Australia’s most valuable banking brand in a year that saw lower ranked institutions such as BT Financial Group increase their standing expo...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned former Sydney mortgage broker and real estate agent Hyuk Hwang from engaging in credit activities for thre...

Financial planning

The Finance Sector Union is currently battling Westpac Group over what it calls an unreasonable increase in sales targets....

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