Symond On A Winner With CommBank Shares John Symond is the 13th largest shareholder in CBA. The man who built a business by battling the banks, "Aussie" John Symond, is set to reap a dividend of almost $5.5 million from his holding in Australia's biggest bank, the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth Bank's annual report, released on Monday, shows Mr Symond's company, Dawnraptor, owns Commonwealth shares worth more than $195 million. Mr Symond's 2.75 million shares make him the bank's 13th biggest shareholder and entitle him to $5.495 million in dividends, to be paid on October 3 at $2 a share. Launched in 1992, Mr Symond's Aussie Home Loans promised to take on the big banks with cheaper home loans. Aussie is now a mortgage broker and last year the Commonwealth Bank moved to increase its ownership of the company from 33 per cent to 80 per cent. Mr Symond owns the rest. Also seeing the benefits of selling his business to the Commonwealth Bank is Count Financial founder Barry Lambert, who is its 20th biggest shareholder with more than 1.6 million shares. Unusually, Mr Lambert is listed in his own right rather than through a corporate vehicle. His stake is worth more than $115 million and entitles him to more than $3 million in dividends. A former Commonwealth Bank employee, Mr Lambert founded Count Financial in 1980 and built it into a financial planning network with more than 300 franchisees and more than $10 billion in funds under advice. In 2011 the Commonwealth Bank paid $373 million to buy Count Financial. The deal allowed Count Financial's owners to be paid in either cash or bank shares.