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Higher recession risk creates opportunity in large miners: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... to a disproportionately large weighting in the market. The entire Japanese banking sector value is 20% less than the big four Australian banks together. This, Hofflin argues, is unsustainable. "Put simply, Australian banks earn very high profits. However ...

Accountants should beware AFSL traps

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... licensee agreements have very strict client ownership stipulations, especially those by licensees that operate within the big four major banks, AMP and IOOF," Tynan said. Tynan went on to suggest that accountants could conceivably establish their own ...

Super fund appetite for property funding up

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
Australian superannuation funds are stepping in to fill a funding gap for property development left by the big four banks' increased capital requirements, according to a specialist capital provider. Real estate investment management firm Qualitas, which ...

Banks face wealth management challenges

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
The big four banks' wealth businesses benefitted from a lower Australian dollar and a strong performance in investment markets for most of the year but generating acceptable return on equity (ROE) remains a challenge. Presenting EY's analysis of Australian ...

NAB to offer mFund trading

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
National Australia Bank (NAB) is the first of the big four banks to offer ASX's mFund Settlement Service. Clients of NAB Asset Management, nabtrade and NAB Asset Servicing (NAS) will be able to trade mFunds at the end of the year. The announcement came ...

WBC rate lift pressures RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... they can achieve by cutting rates again." Well, the RBA cut rates again the month after Saul's comment. But three of the big four banks - CBA, NAB and WBC - pocketed a bit of the RBA's 25 basis point reduction back in May, reducing mortgage rates by ...

CFAs told ASIC is for the consumer

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... (ASIC) 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 ...

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 ...

ANZ ETFS listed on HUB24 platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... (ASX). The joint venture between Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) and ETF Securities is the first entry by a big four bank into Australia's ETF market. Since then, the joint venture's two co-heads, Danny Laidler and Adam Smith, have stepped ...

Super funds under growing global pressure to divest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... 350, has significantly grown its presence in Australia over the last year and is actively targeting super funds and the big four banks. Campaigners have set up a website, Super Switch, where members can check their super fund's exposure to fossil fuels ...