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Advertising won't grow membership, super funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
... found that ANZ has the highest proportion of banking customers who are also members of Smart Choice or OnePath (13.8%), while CBA has 10.9% who are members of either CBA Essential Super or Colonial First State, and NAB and Westpac both have 9.6% (who ...

Vertical integration good for consumers, competition: instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... provide their advisers with high quality professional development, education and training," AMP argued. Commonwealth Bank (CBA) acknowledged that "vertical integration can result in conflicts," but noted that the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reform ...

Call general advice 'sales': CBA

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... regulatory environments to stimulate affordable, accessible and appropriate financial information." In a separate statement the CBA commented: "Many observations in the Interim Report such as the priority of customer wellbeing and system resilience in ...

FSI flooded with second round submissions

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... coming weeks. Submissions from some big financial services players including Macquarie and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have already been published. They cover responses to the ...

Australian Money Market adds CBA to platform

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
Australian Money Market (AMM) has added the CBA Accelerator Cash Account to the choice of options on its term deposit platform. The new cash management account (CMA) is aimed at advisers whose clients have an existing CBA cash management account. AMM ...

BT unveils tougher adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... from consumers, associations and a Senate Economics Committee report. Similar to the new rules approved by Commonwealth Bank (CBA), AMP and National Australia Bank (NAB), BT advisers will have to hold a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation ...

CBA looks for plaintiffs to assist in remediation process

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is in advanced discussions with a number of plaintiff law firms that will act as independent consumer advocates in the Open Advice Review program to compensate victims of poor financial advice. CBA is expecting to announce the ...

NAB gives advisers 3 years to meet tougher standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... of a professional association. The measures follow similar announcements by AMP Group last week, and by Commonwealth Bank (CBA) in July. "We have recently set new education standards for our NAB financial planners to further build the professionalism ...

AMP lifts minimum adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... existing advisers have up to 31 December 2019 to do so. AMP's decision follows a similar announcement by Commonwealth Bank (CBA), which has been at the centre of a Senate inquiry after media reports unveiled cases of adviser misconduct and inconsistent ...

Greens slam CBA executives pay rise

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
Top Commonwealth Bank (CBA) executives should have frozen their salaries or even taken a pay cut while the compensation process for thousands of victims of poor financial advice remains ongoing, Greens Senator Peter Wish-Wilson said. "It is not a good ...