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ASIC financial services enforcements down 10%

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... conduct and good outcomes for customers," the report continued. Commenting on this, ASIC commissioner Greg Tanzer said: "Poor culture is a key driver of poor conduct in the financial services industry. "Given the strong connection between the two, tackling ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... looks set to open lower after falls on Wall Street where weakness in petroleum-linked equities weighed on stocks following poor earnings from ExxonMobil and Chevron and a drop in oil prices At 0820 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures ...

Investors to get less in coming years

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
Investors will "get less and enjoy it worse" in the years ahead as a result of poor earnings growth, low activity levels and little economic progress, fund managers have warned. At an Australian Unity Investments outlook briefing in Sydney, senior fund ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... 48.2 in July, the weakest reading since 48.1 in April 2014, according to Markit's data. LONDON - European stocks fell as poor data out of China sent a chill through markets about the prospects of a global economic recovery. London's benchmark FTSE 100 ...

It's not the when but the what happens after

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... should do" -- Stealers Wheel This was my immediate thought upon reading Bloomberg's piece that, "For two months the Standard & Poor's 500 Index has been stuck in a pattern of rising to the brink and then failing to break through, leaving investors without ...

Annuities to become more competitive

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... Productivity Commission said in its superannuation policy paper last week that individuals might "perceive annuities to be poor value for money as they do not appreciate the longevity risk that these instruments mitigate." "Alternatively, the presence ...

Climate change to impact financial systems

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... implications for their own businesses," said Climate Institute chief executive John Connor. He added, "There's a risk that poor policy signalling, delayed action, and mis-reading by markets could lead to a messy transition that threatens the stability ...

Raising Preservation Age could be problematic

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... Australians currently do not get to choose when they retire due to a range of factors, notably age discrimination, ill healthy, poor English proficiency and caring demands.

Aged care advice enquiries skyrocket

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... care are not recognised." Meldrum explained that "a lot of the time people are making decisions based on being in a time-poor situation, and it's obviously a fairly emotional time as well. And the costs are definitely not going backwards, put it that ...

A Greek offer that cannot be refused

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... chickens again and while they, and we, wait, Greece would not have a single euro to its name. Here's Plan C, Alexis. Send poor unemployed Greeks up North, send even more to Germany. Certainly, EU cannot stop you doing that - it's perfectly legal, especially ...