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AFCA delivers $83 million win

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has collected over $83 million for consumers and small businesses in just six months. In its first six months of operations, AFCA received over 35,000 complaints and 60% of those have already been resolved. ...

ASIC slams consumer credit failures

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
ASIC's review of the sale of consumer credit insurance has lambasted the sector for consistently failing consumers in the design and sale of products. According to ASIC report 622, CCI products are being promoted and sold to customers unfairly, and ...

Beyond the China A shares hype

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... is also seeing Chinese private firms experiencing strong growth. China has gone from making cheap technology for rich consumers elsewhere to a place that manufactures world-leading technology increasingly for domestic consumption and not just for overseas ...

Chief economist update: A case for optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... of 100.7 points in June to 96.5 in July - the lowest in two years, indicating that worriers outnumber half-glass full consumers. The details of the report showed that apart from sub-indices related to property - "time to buy a dwelling" rose by 5.4% ...

Industry funds surge ahead in satisfaction

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... from Roy Morgan's Single Source survey which is based on in-depth interviews conducted face-to-face with over 50,000 consumers per annum in their homes, including over 30,000 with superannuation. The latest results are based on interviews conducted in ...

Chief economist update: The turn in Australia's cycle from vicious to virtuous

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... point to continued weakness/weakening in Australia's labour market and by extension, lesser impetus for domestic consumers - them that make up around 60% of the economy -- to go forth and spend. But hey, the stock market is forward-looking. It has ...

Suncorp named Bank of the Year

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
... card provider or home loan lender," said Baltazar. "These awards are more important than ever in an environment where consumers are faced with an overwhelming number of providers." At the awards, Baltazar said that in a post-Royal Commission environment ...

Responsible investments outperform mainstream

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... first most popular responsible investment strategy. As for consumer expectations of responsible investment strategies - consumers were found to be most interested in funds that avoided fossil fuels and human rights violations. This is not entirely in ...

Whistleblowers given new protection

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... Whistleblowers provide ASIC with important information and help us enforce the laws we administer to address and prevent harm to consumers," ASIC commissioner John Price said. "ASIC considers a strong and effective arrangement for handling reports from ...

ASIC product intervention to commence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... to take action against financial and credit products with the potential to cause significant financial detriment to consumers. The powers would see ASIC handed the ability to temporarily ban individual products, product features, impose sale restrictions ...