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Commonwealth Financial Planning to shutter

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2021
Commonwealth Financial Planning is closing, Commonwealth Bank announced today. From today forward, Commonwealth FP cannot take on any new financial advice clients. Existing advisers and clients will have until November 30 to work out next steps, before ...

Adviser overwhelm explained

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
... reforms would finally come into action. In 2014, there was an inquiry into ASIC and the issues in Commonwealth Financial Planning. The same year saw the Financial System Inquiry and the parliamentary joint committee proposal to lift professional standards. ...

Profit boost for CBA, ups remediation bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2021
... actions that involves Colonial First State Investments (CFSI). The advice class action relates to Commonwealth Financial Planning, Financial Wisdom and CommInsure, which alleges that advisers failed to act in customers' best interest when recommending ...

New AIA advice unit names chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2021
... advice business has named a chief executive to lead its efforts, as the life insurer brings some Commonwealth Financial Planning advisers into the fold. The life insurer has set up AIA Financial Wellbeing, led by Pina Sciarrone, who is the chief executive ...

Commonwealth FP under review, partially offloaded

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2021
Commonwealth Bank has transferred part of Commonwealth Financial Planning to AIA, with the remainder of the business now subject to a strategic review. The big bank has offloaded part of Commonwealth FP to AIA Financial Services, a wholly owned subsidiary ...

Court orders new group definition in CBA advice class action

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
... were filed by Diana Tyrrell and Edward Thomas. They claim that financial advisers working for Commonwealth Financial Planning and Financial Wisdom recommended their clients take out life insurance policies through former CBA subsidiary Commonwealth Mutual ...

AMP advice transformation leads exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... Supervision and Monitoring (SAM) program to support the transformation of the advice business across Commonwealth Financial Planning. Prior to AMP, Hopkins was a program director at TAFE NSW and an executive business manager at Bank of Queensland. Earlier ...

Adviser numbers at five-year low

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... are authorised to provide advice on life risk products. Aware Financial Services with 204 and Commonwealth Financial Planning with 203 risk advisers have the largest market share in the risk advice segment. Lifespan Financial, GWM Adviser and Capstone ...

Almost 3000 advisers gone in 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... wake of the Royal Commission, National Australia Bank lost 245 advisers; ANZ Group lost 162 and Commonwealth Financial Planning lost 125. Merit Wealth was down 55 advisers, PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities went from 56 to just two financial advisers ...

Shadforth executive moves to Akambo

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
... than 25 years of experience in financial services and financial advice, starting his career at Commonwealth Financial Planning.