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UK to ban platform payments

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... the consumer currently pays for the platform service hinders transparency and has the potential to negatively affect competition in the market," notes the report. Even more confronting for an industry where payments to aligned distributors have in the ...

New accountants' licence hailed as win for affordable advice

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... strategic and low-cost forms of financial advice. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has welcomed the increased competition and said conditional licensing provides a vital safety net to consumers. "The FPA has long advocated for the removal of ...

Fundamentally challenged

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... Investors Service, Morgan Stanley was reduced two levels and 13 other banks were downgraded in moves that may shake up competition among Wall Street's biggest firms." And lest we forget, there's still Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, perhaps ...

EM specialist enters Australian market

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... opportunity to exploit those inefficiencies in market evaluation anomalies in those segments that "the big boys and our competition doesn't have access to". "Australian investors are increasingly interested in emerging markets," said John Donovan, managing ...

Coalition releases super manifesto

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... government will introduce a national superannuation clearing house through the Australian Taxation Office, expand competition in how default funds are appointed, improve governance according to the Cooper Review recommendations, improve transparency ...

Equity clearing and settlement discussion paper released

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
Treasurer Wayne Swan has announced new consultations on the regulatory framework for competition in the clearing and settlement functions of the Australian equity market. The consultation announcement comes as a discussion paper on how regulators should ...

Fin services GDP share to shrink by 2050

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... long time, but the paradox is the likely eventual shrinking of its share of the nation's GDP through efficiencies and competition from abroad (direct competition and outsourcing of non-core functions) and the bypassing of many of its traditional func ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... Kerrie Mather is to address the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia business briefing in Sydney, while Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chairman Rod Sims is scheduled to address Committee for Economic Development of Australia ...

AFA opens Adviser of the Year nominations

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... positive profile for financial advisers overall," he added. "We are seeing a profession in transition and each year the competition gets tougher. This is a great outcome for the profession, the industry and the clients who get looked after year after ...

Demand for US Treasuries outstrips supply

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... lows. Despite this, US AAA Treasuries are cheap compared to bonds from other established markets, said the report. Competition for the paper is so fierce that market observers have commented there appears to be no floor underneath what yields investors ...