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CBA fires up over Dollarmites criticism

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
Commonwealth Bank has responded to widespread criticism of its longstanding Dollarmites program. Executive general manager of the bank's retail arm, Mark Jones said CBA is proud of its school banking program, which has been running now for 87 years. ...

FPA award finalists named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... Year Award. Cooper Wealth Management's Felicity Cooper, James O'Reilly of Northeast Wealth and Sandra Slattery of Commonwealth Financial Planning have been named finalists in the FPA Financial Planner AFP of the Year Award. Pierce Hanlen of Hewison and ...

ASIC appeal convicts former CBA planner

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
ASIC has successfully helped convict a former CBA financial planner on appeal. ASIC, together with the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP), appealed the sentence of former Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser Ricky David Gillespie. ...

Labor Government on the cards: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... Labor leader recently Bill Shorten formulated a plan to add $400 million to the super balances of women in receipt of Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave entitlements. It will also apply to those receiving Dad and Partner Pay payments. Currently, women ...

AMP, banks respond to RC interim report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... already undertaken reforms such as the removal of grandfathered commissions applied to BT products. Also responding, Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn labelled the report confronting, adding it was right to criticise the organisation he leads. ...

Regulatory inadequacy to blame: Hayne

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... while requiring few changes to the business itself," Hayne said. In stating this, he referred to Storm Financial and Commonwealth Financial Planning. He also slammed the common rhetoric within the industry that misconduct comes down to 'a few bad apples' ...

Banking remuneration practices to blame for misconduct

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... likelihood of misconduct. "Given the terms of reference for, and the resulting report of, the Prudential Inquiry into Commonwealth Bank, it would be surprising and cause for concern, if APRA's approach to prudential governance of remuneration remained ...

Part-time work widens super gender gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... measures. Labor leader Bill Shorten has announced a plan to add $400 million to the super balances of women in receipt of Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave entitlements. It will also apply to those receiving Dad and Partner Pay payments.

SMSFs seek offshore diversification

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... property loan amount sitting at $262,000. The most commonly held investments by SMSFs as at June 2018 were Westpac; Commonwealth Bank; Magellan Global Fund; BHP Billiton; ANZ; NAB; Platinum International Fund; CLS; Wesfarmers; and Telstra. SuperConcepts ...

Industry body names first chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... implementation of the next phase of the strategy." The industry body is also welcoming two new board directors in Commonwealth Bank head of governance and assurance Jasper Poos; and Harold Lucero, founder of Lucsan - a regtech recently acquired by IRESS. ...