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Quantitative easing eases bank lending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015

Financial System Inquiry response cut-out-and-keep guide

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... have the tools they need to manage any future financial crisis. By end-2016: APRA to take additional steps to ensure our banks have unquestionably strong capital ratios. Superannuation and retirement income What the government said: "It is critical that ...

Steady funds thrive in low growth world

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... strong brands that have pricing power in their sector and that can grow their revenue "in good and in bad years." It avoids banks, utilities, energy, materials and telcos, while favouring large consumer staples, software, consumer discretionary, industrials ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... attractive because neither of these features is sustainable over the long term. "We find that some of the [international] banks are attractive, but we need to be selective in this environment. We focus on banks that generate a lot of fee income, rather ...

WBC rate lift pressures RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... - owner-occupied and residential investment - by 20 basis points effective 20 November. More so, if the other big three banks - ANZ, CBA, NAB - follow suit. The thinking is that, higher mortgage rates, along with the new capital adequacy rules and regulatory ...

CFAs told ASIC is for the consumer

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... chairman Greg Medcraft said the regulator has a significant number of individual surveillances underway at the big four banks, Macquarie and AMP. Speaking at the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Australian Investment Conference in Sydney yesterday ...

Use of bank-aligned advisers in decline

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
Consumer demand to deal with banks through their aligned financial planners is going down and it is being replaced by the internet. The latest Roy Morgan's Single Source surveyed over 50,000 people and found that the number of bank clients using their ...

ISA calls out banks over fee structures

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
Australia's big four banks collect one third of all fees paid to superannuation funds totaling about $10 billion, according to research from Rainmaker Information commissioned by Industry Super Australia. The study found that the super industry drew ...

Turnbull backs financial start-ups

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... base upon which to build. We've got very strong financial regulation, prudential regulation, we've got some of the best banks in the world by any measure so there's a first-class legal system. We've got everything going for us here." Speaking about OnMarket ...

Holding pattern

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... markets or all of the above but it seems the times. they're not a-changin'. This, at least, could be gleaned from two central banks that conducted their regular tete-a-tete on monetary policy so far this week. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept ...