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ASIC to target non-compliant advisers and AFSLs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... "This report highlights our ongoing commitment to ensuring that Australians can have trust and confidence in the financial system. Where there are practices in our markets and financial services industry that could create harm, ASIC will take enforcement ...

Chief economist update: The dog ate my growth target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2018
... People's Bank of China (PBOC) as "a money-added concept, indicating total funds the real economy obtained from the financial system over a certain period of time" (or simply, a broad measure of credit and liquidity) - more than doubled to CNY3.1 trillion ...

Actuaries Institute names chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... health, big data disruption, health care funding and retirement. She has driven significant involvement in the Financial System Inquiry as well as other inquiries conducted by major national regulators, he said. "Our members are instrumental in the reshaping ...

General advice "misleading": Productivity Commission

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... the existing notion of general advice to be scrapped. In its draft report into competition in the Australian financial system, the Productivity Commission argues the use of the term 'advice' should be limited to work undertaken by a professional adviser ...

Money managers eye household debt

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... is, those most capable of continuing to service it as interest rates rise. "The risk here isn't so much to the financial system because of possible mortgage defaults, but to the broader economy because of what households under pressure will do to avoid ...

HLB Mann Judd revises AFSL

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... to cease IER engagements. "AFS licensees active in the provision of IERs have heightened responsibilities as financial system gatekeepers. We will continue to monitor licensees and, where necessary, take licensing and enforcement actions," ASIC commissioner ...

Good news or bad news?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
... People's Bank of China (PBOC) as "a money-added concept, indicating total funds the real economy obtained from the financial system over a certain period of time" (or simply, a broad measure of credit and liquidity) - rose to CNY1.6 trillion in November ...

APRA announces new executive general manager

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
... protect the financial well-being of the Australian community." "In particular, Therese's understanding of the financial system, and the inner workings of complex financial institutions, will help ensure APRA's strategies and supervisory practices remain ...

ASFA disappointed in Royal Commission scope

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... the conference that the Government couldn't find a compelling reason to "carve out a significant part of our financial system" - namely superannuation - from the inquiry. "The entire financial services industry must be able to stand up to scrutiny. That ...

Government caves to banking Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
... fear-mongering about a banking inquiry" that is disrupting and risks undermining the reputation of Australia's financial system. They said in a joint statement: "Instead of the inquisition into capitalism that some have called for, the Royal Commission ...