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Qantas Super names member experience head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... communications for AMP Capital, and has also previously held positions with Stockland, Cuscal Limited, and the Commonwealth Bank. Qantas Super chief executive Michael Clancy said his appointment reinforces the fund's commitment to enhancing products ...

CBA Group Super CIO retires

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
The chief investment officer at Commonwealth Bank Group Super is retiring after more than 20 years' service at the corporate superannuation fund. Following 38 years' service with CBA, Gerard Parlevliet will retire from the banking group before the end ...

Life insurance industry rebuts need for greater reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... Framework, the professional standards legislation, and the industry's Code of Practice coming in to effect on 1 July. Commonwealth Bank group executive, wealth management, Annabel Spring also appeared, using her opening statements to defend last year's ...

CBA reviews part-time staff earnings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
The Commonwealth Bank will review its payments to part-time employees over the past eight years to determine if any are owed unpaid superannuation entitlements. Last week the Finance Sector Union claimed CBA failed to pay part-time staff members the ...

Unadvised SMSFs ripe for advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... reforms from news and social media platforms. This is a key finding of new research from the SMSF Association and Commonwealth Bank slated for release in April, exploring SMSF trustee expectations and the provision of advice. "These people are relying ...

CBA records $4.9bn half-year profit

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
Commonwealth Bank's wealth management arm recorded a $249 million profit in the second half of 2016, up 6% on the first six months of the calendar year. The wealth division was a small contributor to CBA's overall net profit after tax of $4.9 billion ...

Perpetual hires former Count CEO

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... by industry luminary Barry Lambert in 1980. Prior to that, he was general manager of strategic development in Commonwealth Bank's wealth management division and chief operating officer for Neuberger Berman's hedge fund business. He has also held roles ...

Industry giant retires

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
... medical cannabis. Lambert's distinguished career started at age 17 when he took a job in the Taree branch of the Commonwealth Bank. He went on to found Count Financial in 1980, an after-hours tax service firm which at its peak, represented around 500 ...

CBA to pay $23 million for poor advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
The Commonwealth Bank will pay at least $23 million in compensation to customers found to have received inappropriate and costly financial advice. Promontory Financial Group confirmed it has completed all assessments of Commonwealth Financial Planning ...

Fund manager launches new IMA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... can provide investors with the ability to invest in companies' right across the Australian share market from Commonwealth Bank right down to the micro-cap space," Carson said. Carson said that investments in technology and the IT sector currently account ...