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Former TCorp executives join FIIG

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
... Knight is also a board member of OneVue, the Australian Office of Financial Management, and is the chairman of the Commonwealth Government Affordable Housing Implementation Taskforce. Feldmanis spent four years at TCorp as chief financial officer and ...

Advisers flock to non-insto licensees

ALEX BURKE  |  SUNDAY, 1 OCT 2017
... Green. Overall, the largest licensees are AMP Financial Planning, Charter Financial Planning, SMSF Advisers Network, Commonwealth Financial Planning, Count Financial, Westpac, GWM Adviser Services, Morgans Financial, NAB and Synchron.

Former Financial Wisdom adviser banned

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... achieve the objectives of the clients. At the time Houghton was also a cross-endorsed authorised representative of Commonwealth Financial Planning and Dover Financial Advisers. ASIC deputy chairman Peter Kell said the regulator will continue to take ...

CBA climate risk court case abandoned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
Shareholders attempting to take the Commonwealth Bank to the Federal Court for historically failing to disclose climate change risks in its annual reports have withdrawn the claim. Legal correspondence between social justice group Environmental Justice ...

CBA mulls CFSGAM IPO, head of wealth departs

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
Commonwealth Bank announced its asset management arm, Colonial First State Global Asset Management, is undergoing a strategic review and could potentially list as a public company. CFSGAM, with $219 billion in assets under management, has "achieved ...

AIA acquires CBA life insurance businesses

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
The Commonwealth Bank has sold 100% of its Australian and New Zealand life insurance businesses to AIA Group for $3.8 billion. The sale of CommInsure Life and Sovereign also includes a 20-year bancassurance partnership with AIA for the provision of ...

CommInsure strengthens income protection offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
... focus on their recovery without having to worry about how it will affect their claim." In its annual results the Commonwealth Bank flagged the sale of CommInsure, confirming that it was in discussions with third parties to determine the most suitable ...

BEAR regime must extend entire industry: Medcraft

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... various, ongoing investigations within Australia's banks - most notably ASIC and AUSTRAC's current inquiries into the Commonwealth Bank - Medcraft acknowledged that culture and conduct, along with accountability, in the sector remains a significant issue ...

Macrovue hires from Macquarie and BT

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... strategies across Australian and Asian markets. Seshadri makes the move to Macrovue from a consulting position with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Maz Zaman will also join as head of sales, having led large sales teams at BT Financial Group, Link ...

Currency trend is not our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... "extrapolations" of a higher $A/US exchange rate this time. According to the Australian Financial Review, "Analysts at Commonwealth Bank recently suggested that a continued slide in the greenback could see the Aussie dollar push as high as US85c by the ...