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Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... Apart from these post crisis developments other major changes have been: growth of household indebtedness and exposure of banks to residential mortgages; shifts in the pattern of funding of banks and non-financial corporations; with rapid growth of superannuation ...

Frantic pace of alternatives growth revealed

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... alternative managers' assets, followed by wealth managers (18%), insurance companies (9%), sovereign wealth funds (6%), banks (3%), funds of funds (3%) and endowments & foundations (3%). For the Top 100 managers, North America continues to be the largest ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... the market. Investors will be influenced by a deluge of quarterly profit news out of the US this week, including its major banks, and whether it backs up the recent increases in employment, housing demand and confidence. "(Fed Reserve chair) Janet Yellen's ...

CBA unveils tougher adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... tarnished with the same brush." As the last Roy Morgan survey showed, client satisfaction with the advisers of the big four banks is above 80%. But the scandals revealed over recent months have largely damaged the industry's reputation. As the first ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... financial debt in Europe rose for a fifth day. The Markit iTraxx Financial Index of credit-default swaps on 25 European banks and insurers rose 4.5 basis points to 73.5, the highest since May 27, according to data compiled by Bloomberg". Did someone ...

Labor forces tabling of FoFA regulations

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... disallow the regulations that will reduce consumer protections in financial advice." "These changes were lobbied for by the banks and financial planners, including the Commonwealth Bank," he added.

What happened to the ISA-FSC accord?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... system as it stands will remain. "My instinct is that any government would be highly squeamish of this free-for-all that the banks are proposing," he says. He insists that an independent body is vital in helping employers make the right choice about ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... 44 cents to $41.58. Gold miner Newcrest was 23 cents lower at $10.62 but Rio Tinto was up nine cents at $62.37. Among the banks, ANZ lost 25 cents to $33.62, National Australia Bank dropped 17 cents to $33.56, and Westpac was seven cents lower at $34.27 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... seven cents to $62.67, Woodside Petroleum gained 17 cents to $41.98 and Fortescue Metals lost 1.5 cents to $4.66. Among the banks, ANZ added 12 cents to $33.90 and National Australia Bank gained four cents to $33.77, while Westpac was one cent higher ...

Citi develops white label banking for industry funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... with them, and offer their products and services to them. "And generally because the members have got longevity with the banks, and their network and ability to target people coming up to retirement age is vastly superior to anything the superannuation ...