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AMP ditches SMSF lending

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
AMP Bank has pulled the plug on its SMSF lending business, joining CBA and Westpac. AMP will support current SMSF home loan customers. But starting November, they will not be able to switch to interest-only or refinance their loans. This leaves Macquarie ...

ASIC slams unacceptable reporting breaches

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... was launched to a breach report being lodged with ASIC, this took an average of 150 days. The corporate watchdog also put Bank of Queensland, Bendigo Bank, Credit Union Australia, Greater Bank, Heritage Bank, Macquarie and Suncorp under the microscope. ...

AAT overrides adviser ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
... and 30 November 2012, ASIC's investigation found Hutchison banked clients' cheques for advice fees into his personal bank account when he was obliged to remit or report them to RI Advice. He also failed to record the receipt of the cheques on the ...

Big-spending retirees live in Melbourne: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2018
... greater proportion on essential goods and services. Milliman's retirement expectations and spending profile report examined bank account transactions of 300,000 retirees nationally. It found non-discretionary costs such as food, electricity and gas are ...

Drought-hit farmers turn to advice

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
This July was the driest in Australia for 16 years. Almost 100% of New South Wales and 57% of Queensland is in drought and financial advisers are dealing first-hand with the impact. The numbers are startling yet they don't come close to measuring ...

Indigenous Australians face super challenges: Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... of life insurers selling policies over the phone, which allegedly included the practice of coaxing customer into providing bank details and personal information which entered them into contracts they did not realise they had agreed to. Orr asked Melcer ...

MetLife revamps relationship management and underwriting teams

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... administration. Holt was previously head of sales development at MetLife and held senior roles with MLC, BT and Deutsche Bank. The underwriting team also saw changes to senior line up, with Simon Dent appointed as national retail underwriting manager ...

Financial abuse: A hidden epidemic

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
Commonwealth Bank is extending its domestic and family violence support program due to customer need, with its helpline receiving about 90,000 calls in the first month. Initially launched as a 12-month pilot in November 2017, the CBA Domestic and Family ...

NAB recruits customer executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
National Australia Bank is bolstering its private banking business by appointing its second customer executive. Margot Faraci will commence the newly-created role of NAB Partners customer executive for the northern region in October 2018. She will be ...

Sunsuper appoints former AustralianSuper executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... financial services industry, including as AustralianSuper's group executive engagement, advocacy and brand. Williams was also Bank of Melbourne's head of brand and marketing. She also spent time at NAB, working in wealth, commercial banking ...