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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 ...

Macquarie forced to contact all advice clients for remediation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
Macquarie Equities Limited (MEL) must contact all clients who received advice from its financial planning arm, Macquarie Private Wealth (MPW), going back to 2004 following action from the regulator. Under the enforceable undertaking (EU) in place since ...

CBA dismisses Murray's concerns over vertical integration

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) chief executive Ian Narev dismissed concerns expressed by the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) interim report that Australia's big institutions control both the manufacturing and distribution of financial products. "We need to ...

ANZ Wealth appoints head of practice based fin planning

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
Former BT and Commonwealth financial planning head, Neil Younger, has been named as head of practice based financial planning for ANZ Wealth. Younger's previous role was general manager for Commonwealth Financial Planning where he reported to then Colonial ...

Church ministers urged to save

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... gave a presentation at the event, as did Murray Nicholls from chartered accountants Saward Dawson, Cornerstone Wealth Financial Planner, Gavin Martin and Focus on the Family Chairman, Neville Cox. "After a lifetime of ministry we want to make sure ministers ...

ANZ nabs Paul Barrett from CFS

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
Paul Barrett, the former general manager in advice at Colonial First State (CFS) joins ANZ Wealth as general manager in advice and distribution. Barrett, who will start in the new role in April, will be responsible for all ANZ's financial planner and ...

Englund heads BT dealer groups, Younger departs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
BT Financial Group has appointed practice management head Matthew Englund as its new head of dealer groups, following Neil Younger's departure to head Commonwealth Financial Planning. Mark Spiers, BT Financial Group's general manager of advice, today ...

Ord Minnett raises $600 million

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
Ord Minnett breaks away from its traditional stockbroking roots by expanding into term deposits, a move that raised more than $600 million in funds in the past six months alone. Tim Gunning, chief executive at Ord Minnett, has only been at the firm ...

Gunning joins Ord Minnett as CEO

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
The former general manager of Commonwealth Financial Planning, Tim Gunning, has been appointed chief executive of Ord Minnett. Gunning will be responsible for Ord Minnett Private Wealth, Portfolio Services, Funds Management and Corporate Finance businesses. ...

Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards 2009

The best of the best in financial services marketing, sales and business development battled it out in this year's Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards, with the winners announced last night at the Shangri-La hotel in Sydney. This year's event gave ...