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ASIC asks FSI for more flexible toolkit

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has called on the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to grant it a more flexible regulatory toolkit and increase its scope to address market problems. Giving a speech at the Corporate Governance ...

Murray shuns FoFA commissions' debate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
Financial System Inquiry (FSI) chairman David Murray has avoided weighing in on the debate about the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) amendments and the possibility that they could bring back commissions in advice. Speaking at the Institute of Chartered ...

Cuts to ASIC and ATO push industry to self-regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... regulator of financial advice, may provide further impetus to bring this forward." The AFA expects the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to provide further opinion on the appropriateness of self-regulation.

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 ...

Research houses to blame for advice catastrophes: AIOFP

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... when rating products are one of the reasons behind the failure of some funds. In a submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI), the AIOFP said that the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation has not addressed "the core reasons" why some funds ...

Super to engender securitisation 'rebirth': Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... a system to provide for Australians' retirement. He expressed concern that David Murray, chair of the Financial System Inquiry, recently mentioned the possibility of mandating investing.

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 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... Australian Industry Group will release its performance of manufacturing (PMI) index for April. Meanwhile, Financial System Inquiry head David Murray is slated to provide an update on the inquiry at an Australian Business Economists lunch. In equities ...

FEATURE: Re-imagining Australia's financial future

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
With the deadline now closed for submissions to the Financial System Inquiry, the first investigation into the sector in 16 years, Financial Standard investigates the big themes, the surprises and what has been missed amongst the more than 250 publicly ...

Consumers reluctant to use online advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... was conducted in partnership with GfK and was presented as part of the organisation's submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). The research featured a survey of about 1,000 adult Australians about attitudes towards current and future behaviour ...