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ASIC to consider complaints about ISA's 'Compare the Pair'

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will consider complaints about the new Industry Super Association (ISA) 'Compare the Pair' campaign, over concerns that they are "misleading." Commissioner Greg Tanzer confirmed that the regulator ...

CBA asks Murray inquiry to remove super from awards

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... banking customers. The bank also asked the inquiry to review and clarify the responsibilities of APRA and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), as well as improving knowledge sharing between the two regulators. "Commonwealth Bank ...

ASX calls for Australia-based exchanges

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has called for the Financial Services Inquiry to explore introducing requirements for systemically important financial markets infrastructure assets to be placed on-shore. This would grant Australia's policy ...

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... is now between 5.2% and 5.6%." So... have no fear, Janet is here! "Recent steps by the Fed to reduce the rate of new securities purchases are not a lessening of this commitment, only a judgment that recent progress in the labor market means our aid for ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... showed that new home sales were at a near three-year high, up 4.6 per cent, seasonally-adjusted, in February; the TD Securities Melbourne Institute monthly inflation gauge rose by 0.2 per cent in March and by 2.7 per cent in the 12 months to March, the ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... economic news on Monday, the Reserve Bank of Australia is due to release financial aggregates for February, the TD Securities-Melbourne Institute inflation gauge for March is due out as is the HIA New home sales for February No major equities news is ...

We did a "pretty good job" in CBA planning case: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) commissioner Greg Tanzer believes that the regulator "did a pretty good job" in dealing with the Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFP) case that prompted a Senate inquiry into the overall performance ...

ASIC bans former authorised representative

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
Former director and officer of CS Heritage Securities has been permanently banned from providing financial services by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC). The regulator found that Phillip Gregory Spark had engaged in misleading ...

Silk questions value of financial services intermediaries

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... trustees. Silk spoke yesterday at a panel session on "the over-intermediation of financial services" at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) forum in Sydney. Quoting Rainmaker data, Silk argued that the superannuation industry ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
The share market has opened lower after falls on US and European markets overnight. Invast Securities chief market analyst Peter Esho said a sell-off on European markets, particularly in Germany, may have dampened investor sentiment. Manufacturing data ...