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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 ...

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STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... Securities and Investments Commission might prove to be a wake-up call for the regulator. We also look at the Financial System Inquiry and what some of the major players have said in their submissions. We also speak to the Cbus chief executive David ...

Could government issue its own annuities?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... according to the Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) in its submission to the Financial System Inquiry. While there is near universal agreement that Australia needs more products that deal with longevity risk, CEPAR has become ...

SMSFs want access to infrastructure and corporate bonds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
The Financial System Inquiry should look into ways of making direct investment in infrastructure and corporate bonds more accessible to self-managed super funds (SMSFs), the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has argued. SMSFs currently ...

SMSFs need no more regulation: Treasury

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... (SMSF) industry does not need to be prudentially regulated, Treasury has argued in its submission to the Financial System Inquiry. It said that a major attraction of SMSFs was the light-touch regulation, providing freedom for trustees to engage more ...

PE backed IPOs outperform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... the domestic and global marketplace," he added. Release of the study follows AVCAL's submission to the Financial System Inquiry which is investigating how capital within the Australian financial system can be unlocked and allowed to flow into income ...

ASIC should regulate SMSFs as a financial product: PwC

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... product regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). In a submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI), PwC alerted that account balances transferred into SMSFs are often "very small" and added that they often follow ...

ASIC eyes fee for service funding model

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) asked the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to consider changing the regulator's funding model to one partly based on fee for service. In a submission to the Murray inquiry, ASIC proposed to charge ...

National Seniors asks Inquiry to deliver "top quality" advice

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
National Seniors has called on the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to consider ways in which Australia can deliver "top quality, independent financial advice." In its submission, the over-50s consumer lobby urges the Inquiry to consider the government's ...

AFA focuses FSI submission on FoFA "misinformation campaign"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) have asked the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to consider whether the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) should have stepped in to address what the association calls a "campaign of misinformation" ...