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SMSFs ramp up trading in turbulent markets

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... trading volumes favouring buying during recent volatility shows investors are constantly keeping an eye on the market," Commonwealth Bank head of SMSF customers Marcus Evans said, and added that the data "dispels the myth that SMSFs are conservative ...

Macquarie and CBA in global top 100

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
Macquarie and Commonwealth Bank are the only Australian companies to have made it into the top 100 largest fund managers globally, according to a survey by Pensions & Investments and Towers Watson. Of the top 50 managers in the annual Pensions & Investments/Towers ...

FEATURE: Adviser education

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... working for an accredited Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) professional practice. Last year the Commonwealth Bank, among other major financial institutions, released what would be its minimum adviser standards. Financial advisers operating ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... manage and have seen little take-up. CBA reacts to planning scandal 2014 has arguably been the most difficult year for Commonwealth Bank's wealth management arm. The year started with hundreds of submissions from disgruntled Commonwealth Financial Planning ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... placed in the right investment pathways; so much for the view that Murray would protect his previous employer the Commonwealth Bank. For a wealth management sector that has for the last four years tied itself in knots over how to implement best interests ...

ASIC to crack down on big four, AMP and Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... large financial institutions, and advice and dealing activities." It will focus on the financial advice arms of AMP, Commonwealth Bank (CBA), National Australia Bank (NAB), ANZ, Westpac/BT Financial Group and Macquarie Group. "The quality of financial ...

Movers and shakers

... head of retail underwriting CommInsure has appointed Asteron Life's executive manager of risk assessment to head the Commonwealth Bank's insurance business retail advice underwriting team. John Kraszula will join the CommInsure retail advice leadership ...

Australian Ethical launches country's first ethical bond fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... Index, our Fixed Interest Trust's universe is considerably more discerning than a mainstream bond fund. For example, Commonwealth government bonds represent a little less than 40% of the Trust's assets," Macri continued. "The Trust does not possess an ...

We don't want to regulate SMSFs: APRA, ASIC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... SMSF had low borrowing levels was a good thing," said Jan Harris, executive director of the markets group at the Commonwealth Treasury. Kell was more direct in his views, however: "At ASIC we've seen the ramifications of borrowing in SMSFs during the ...

BT makes key distribution role appointment

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... development and management across superannuation, managed investments, retirement incomes and group insurance with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Macquarie Bank. An FSC spokesperson confirmed that the departure is unrelated to FSC chief executive ...