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ASIC asks FSI for more flexible toolkit

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... integrated, competitive, global and complex and new types of market-based financing had created additional risks. Technology innovation has also been a feature. Price added that ASIC had learnt lessons from the collapse of Storm, and other high profile ...

Noble departs ASFA, joins Inflection Point Capital

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... products across a broad range of asset classes." Noble said the firm specialises in "an enhanced approach to ESG", adding 'innovation' and 'agility' to the traditional 'environmental', 'social' and 'governance' classes. IPCM was founded in 1992 with ...

FEATURE: Rethinking fixed income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
The prospect of rising interest rates has forced institutional investors to sit up and take notice of product innovations in the fixed income market. But with so many strategies to choose from, how do large investors and their advisers choose the right ...

When Maslow's Theory and Marketing Collide

Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs." - Peter Drucker, father of modern management and marketing If marketing is so important to a business, why is it often the first thing cut when times are tough? Why chop one of two things ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Budget speech 2014 -15

... start by abolishing a range of industry assistance programmes, saving over $845 million. We will refocus our effort on innovation and self-reliance. Businesses should stand or fall on their ability to produce the goods and services that people actually ...

FSI to focus on the technology challenge

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
Technology change and the challenges it represents to businesses is one of the main items that the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) will be looking at over the next weeks. "Technology is a key theme," FSI chair David Murray said during a speech to the ...

CFS awarded 'Best Platform Overall'

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
CFS FirstWrap platform was awarded 'Best Platform Overall', 'Best Navigation and User Interface' and 'Best Product Offering' in the recent Investment Trends December 2013 Platform Benchmarking Report CFS FirstChoice platform was awarded 'Best Master ...

David Murray gives first insight into FSI

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... The Financial System Inquiry (FSI) chairman David Murray said that the committee will focus on ageing, technology and innovation as drivers of change and at how these affect regulation, competition and consumer outcomes. Murray said that the committee ...

Challenger sees sustained interest in lifetime annuities

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... million. Challenger chief executive Brian Benari said: "Retail annuity sales continue to be propelled by our product innovation and a rising number of baby boomer retirees. In what is seasonally our quietest sales period, we have maintained sales momentum ...