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CBA's advice review compensates 19 clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
... Promontory said. The independent expert noted that "while significant progress has been made in retrieving customer files of CFPL customers, the retrieval of files for customers of [Financial Wisdom Limited] FWL advisers remains a challenge for the Bank." ...

Report confirms failed CBA compensation

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) enforceable undertaking to Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFPL) and Financial Wisdom (FWL) in 2011. Despite being under ASIC's surveillance, in 3,452 of the 4,330 cases assessed in the ...

ASIC bans Commonwealth Financial Planning employee

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... created false documents for client files. Locksley of Merewether, New South Wales, was the servicing planner of banned former CFPL adviser Jade Zaicew from 2011 to 2012. ASIC's investigation found Locksley engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... Bank's wealth management arm. The year started with hundreds of submissions from disgruntled Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFPL) and Financial Wisdom (FW) customers being made public by the Senate Economics Committee inquiry into the performance of ...

CBA, ASIC unveil details of new compensation scheme

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... the original process to compensate victims of poor advice was found to be inconsistent. Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFPL) and Financial Wisdom (FW) will have to reopen the compensation process by contacting more than 4,000 clients with an assessment ...

Claims against advice arm have no factual basis: Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... did not, until recently, fully understand how the CBA was implementing its compensation schemes for clients affected by the CFPL scandal, the committee doubts ASIC is fully aware of the Macquarie business and remediation process," the report argued.

CBA unveils tougher adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... Perkovic said. She added: "we will want our advisers to be part of an industry association." Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFPL) and Financial Wisdom were accused of not being transparent enough in the way they gave financial advice to their customers ...

Macquarie rebukes advice, compliance concerns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... did not, until recently, fully understand how the CBA was implementing its compensation schemes for clients affected by the CFPL scandal, the committee doubts ASIC is fully aware of the Macquarie business and remediation process," the Committee report ...

CBA's Narev leaves key questions unanswered

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... many people have been made redundant as a consequence of the scandals involving the bank's Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFPL) and Financial Wisdom. "We went through a process of making sure that the involvement of everybody was looked at, but we ...

CBA opens up compensation review to all advice clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... inquiry." The Open Advice Review program will re-evaluate the advice given to clients of Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFPL) and Financial Wisdom. The bank has set up a dedicated team, a website and a phone number to attend customer's demand for a ...