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Confidence key to financial future: Murray

COLIN BRINSDEN, AAP ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... require substantial change. But it also warns there is no room for complacency. The review believes Australia's banking sector is competitive, albeit concentrated. It concedes the big four banks have funding advantages because of their size, and notes ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
A rebound in the local banking sector has helped the Australian share market to open higher, after Wall Street stocks surged to new records. Strong Chinese manufacturing figures and surprisingly good US car sales pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

FSU warns of job loss 'tidal wave'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). The FSU said that the negotiations could lead to less regulation of the banking sector, a lift in restrictions on the entry of overseas labour and an increase in the number of banks and financial services providers ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... Australia, the market on Wednesday fell for a second straight day, due to a drop by energy stocks and weakness in the banking sector. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index lost 18 points, or 0.33 per cent, to 5,382.7. The broader All Ordinaries index was down ...

Bridges brings another advice business under IOOF umbrella

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... commercial terms, their ability to transition customers and staff and, of course, their commitment to the customer-owned banking sector," CUA chief executive officer Chris Whitehead said. He explained that the group's financial planning arm "is too small ...

SMSFs want access to infrastructure and corporate bonds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
... through corporate bonds will become increasingly important as superannuation assets grow to exceed those of the banking sector." SPAA also used its submission to defend the current SMSF regulatory regime against calls that SMSFs should be prudentially ...

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... Stearns moment" - the first in many domestic issuers expected to default and that this could spill over on the shadow banking sector. Shadow banking?A That's good then. Isn't this the sector China has a problem controlling? By introducing the risk of ...

Regulators must enforce rules, not write them: Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... pension markets. He also countered the view that compulsory superannuation directs too much money away from the banking sector. He said that research by Monash University's Professor Rodney Maddock, commissioned by the FSC, found that superannuation ...

Elders FP appoints regional manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
Elders Financial Planning has appointed a regional manager to expand the dealer group's network and client base across the Northern Territory, Queensland and the majority of New South Wales. Kevin Mayne will join the company as regional manager north ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... half results. In Australia, the market on Tuesday closed higher as strong profit growth by ANZ drove gains in the banking sector. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 32.4 points, or 0.62 per cent, to 5,254.5. The broader All Ordinaries index added ...