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Stewardship lessons from BlackRock

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
... improve inter-manager collaboration which remains limited. WTW said stewardship is an area where collaboration, not competition, is often in the interests of end savers. Lastly, there is room for stronger leadership. For example, proactively setting ...

Banks push to leave vertical integration on the table

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
... Australia's financial institutions and found unsustainable market structures would be the likely outcome, leading to less competition. However, Australia's banks have been increasing the focus on their core banking operations, and the vertical integration ...

FASEA welcomes new directors

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
... the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). Previously, Freeman spent more than a year as a director of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and was the director of policy and campaigns at the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network ...

Charity auction open for FICAP

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... bottle of Penfold's Grange; and a golfing master class with Paul Gow. The FICAP 'Who Wants to be a Rockstar' singing competition raises funds for ill and disadvantaged young people and their families. This year, funds raised by FICAP will go to Learning ...

Banks must prioritise NPP, says Reserve Bank

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
... taking to roll out the high speed payment system, saying: "The concern is that the slow roll out is limiting both competition and innovation." He went on to write: "Given these issues, the board has asked me to obtain assurances from the major banks ...

Countdown to 2019 FICAP Rockstar

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
... to be bigger than ever. The FICAP 'Who Wants to be a Rockstar?' event is an annual fundraiser and singing competition in which finance professionals vie for the title of Rockstar of the Year. Since launching in 2006, 'Who Wants to be a Rockstar?' ...

Benchmark APRA against global counterparts: Treasury

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
... five reports: the Royal Commission's final report, the Productivity Commission's final report on superannuation and competition in the Australian financial system, IMF's Financial Stability Assessment of Australia and APRA's own internal enforcement ...

Mortgage broker trail commissions to stay

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2019
... commissions on new loans with a review slated for three years down the line, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said yesterday. The competition regulator and the Council of Financial Regulators will conduct the review to determine how trailing commissions are ...

Equity investors will struggle in 2019: Baur

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... into the economy and they compete with the other middle-class workers in the UK, US, Europe and Japan, he said. That competition is going to go away and middle-class wages may indeed be the next bull market, Baur said. Further, Baur forecasted the current ...

ASIC enforcement must get tough: Commissioner

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... enforcement solution The Commissioner has already ruled out handing over a part of ASIC's remit to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). He stopped just short of recommending a civil enforcement agency for misconduct evidence gathered ...