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Government still mulling response on Senate report

LAURA MILLAN AND AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... he added. Commenting on the bank's response and on the Committee's recommendation to set up a Royal Commission to investigate cases of bad advice, fraud and document forgery within CBA, prime minister Tony Abbott said he won't be rushed into a further ...

FPA calls for industry summit to restore trust in advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... Commission," he added, referring to the Senate Economics Committee recommendation to set up a Royal Commission to investigate cases of bad advice within Commonwealth financial planning businesses. "We need a system where when things go wrong, members ...

CBA boss to be grilled on Senate report

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... (CBA) boss Ian Narev will front the media for the first time since a damning report called for a royal commission to investigate its financial advisers. Narev will face a media conference in Sydney at 1045 AEST on Thursday, a week after the Senate report ...

So good but for the wrong spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... "Goldcoaster". According to Mr. Goldcoaster, "Stocks are up because of record reverse repo unwind" so I decided to investigate. And yes, indeed! The Fed sold US$339.481 billion in overnight repos on 30 June but only US$150.572 billion last night, "meaing ...

ATO closing in on undisclosed offshore income

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is mining data to track down people with undisclosed offshore income and assets. The ATO is examining information from a range of sources including: data from overseas tax authorities on Australians with offshore ...

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STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... at the recent regulatory changes that have removed some of the barriers to the Australian corporate bond market and investigate why Australia is still behind its international peers in getting involved in this market. We also look at the struggle to ...

Banks suspected of pocketing grandfathered commissions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... Super Australia (ISA) has warned. ISA has called on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to investigate the issue of what it calls 'orphan commissions'. ISA chief executive David Whiteley said it was time for ASIC to "have a good ...

2014 MAX Award Winners and Finalists

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014

Finding alpha in ESG

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
The Who's Who in ESG research attended this week's annual ESG RA Research Awards and the results are a mix of good, bad and magnificent. Elaine Prior is a name that needs no introduction in Australia's ESG broking community. Her research into the subject ...

Majority of Australians say 'no' to fossil fuel investment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
The vast majority of Australians do not like the idea that their superannuation is invested in fossil fuels, a new survey has found. According to the report, 67% of Australians would choose a superannuation fund that does not invest in fossil fuels ...