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Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
Everything is political and especially so with the super-charged high stakes poker game on display in the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) where the battle lines were quickly drawn between financial product providers versus consumers. And after listening ...

The recession we're wishing to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... of America Merrill Lynch chief economist, Saul Eslake, threw the media a bone and now they're running with it and refuse to let go. Don't be happy, worry. For even if the national accounts show that the economy produced more goods and services in the ...

Slides can be fun too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... will be "a big beneficiary" from the OPEC decision, he said." And because Australia's joined at China's hip, Australians all, let us rejoice. And the rest of 'em big boys? Cheaper oil raises the threat of deflation in the euro area and Japan, ensuring ...

From oil at US$300 to oil at US$30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... US$140-150 oil would plunge the globe into another recession, demand would contract and push prices down, not up to US$300, let alone US$378." The price of Brent and WTI oil peaked two months later (May 2011) at around US$126 a barrel and US114, respectively. ...

APRA's IT infrastructure strains

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
In an extraordinary admission, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has written to super fund trustees telling them APRA's information technology and data management systems are struggling to deal with the new data reporting regime ...

FEATURE: A new world order in active management

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
The active versus passive debate is one that has raged for decades but with the latest figures showing a steady increase in the amount being allocated to index strategies, Mark Smith asks the experts if the jig is up for active fund managers. It seems ...

FoFA opt-in to cause advisers biggest headache

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... excessive red tape and making advice affordable, he said this was not a discussion to be had in the media or social media. "Let's just get on with the job," he said.

Cormann to keep up the FoFA fight

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... inquired into those laws and have recommended their passage. We will continue the conversation with cross bench Senators and let's see where we end up," Cormann told Chris Uhlmann on ABC AM. "The Senate, over the past four months, supported our reforms ...

Industry furious at financial advice swap

AAP & ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... Xenophon said the government changes were unambiguously bad for consumers, an argument dismissed by Senator Cormann. "Don't let anybody think that this has anything to do about the best interests of consumers," Senator Cormann told the Senate. Instead ...

The Future Fund is not a super fund: Costello

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... duty is solely to the government. "There are many people who think the Future Fund is some kind of super fund," he said. "Let me be clear about this; it is not. The Future Fund has never received a member contribution; in fact, the Future Fund has no ...