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Former First State chief joins TCorp

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... his service to superannuation. The addition of Dwyer to the TCorp board follows the manager's appointment of former Commonwealth Bank debt markets head Simon Ling in May, as financial markets general manager.

CBA sells advice dealer group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
Commonwealth Bank is offloading its financial advice subsidiary, Count Financial. The group announced this morning is has entered into an agreement to sell the dealer group to CountPlus for $2.5 million. It will also, over time, sell its 35.9% holding ...

Commonwealth FP completes EU compliance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2019
Commonwealth Financial Planning has complied with ASIC's court enforceable undertaking regarding fees for no service conduct and said it will transition to a new business model. At the end of May, ASIC received an attestation from Commonwealth Financial ...

Final farewell for industry association

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
After more than 96 years as a recognised industry association, members of the Superannuated Commonwealth Officers of Australia have come together for the last time. About 100 of the industry body's remaining members attended its final meeting - a special ...

Challenger funds management chief resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... for two divisions: Challenger Investment Partners and Fidante Partners. Saines was previously a group executive at Commonwealth Bank's institutional banking and markets business, instrumental in designing and implementing the group's total capital solutions ...

Dealer group strengthens executive lineup

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... the group, Cullen was head of best advice at IOOF. He has also previously held roles with Colonial First State and Commonwealth Financial Planning. Centrepoint Alliance chief executive Angus Benbow described Cullen as a natural fit for the role. "He ...

Spitfire acquires adviser platform, names chief

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... responsible for BT Panorama's investment, managed accounts and superannuation capabilities. He previously worked at Commonwealth Bank, Macquarie Bank, GBST and Morgan Stanley. Johnson said he is looking forward to working with the Spitfire team to ...

Financial tech firm refocuses strategy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... financial planning technology company will reconfigure its strategy following an unsuccessful pilot partnership with Commonwealth Financial Planning. Intiger will refocus its strategy on developing and marketing its BOOM software after it failed to negotiate ...

ASIC names new default super fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... the ASIC Act instead of the Public Service Act. Under the Public Service Act, new employees were defaulted into the Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme (CSS), Public Sector Superannuation Scheme (PSS) or the Public Sector Superannuation accumulation plan ...

Big four satisfaction on road to recovery

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... 83.8%, 7.9 percentage points better than their larger counterparts, whose satisfaction levels are clustered together. Commonwealth Bank leads the way, sitting at 78.1% satisfaction, with the worst of the big four, NAB (72.7%) no more than 5.4 percentage ...