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ASX200 companies 'poor' on gender diversity disclosure

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
Most ASX200 companies do not meet gender diversity reporting recommendations, a BlackRock review has found. BlackRock looked at the 2013 annual reports of companies included in the ASX200 stockmarket index and found that gender diversity reporting is ...

Cormann tables adviser register to "weed out bad apples"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
A public register of financial advisers will help "weed out bad apples," the Financial Planning Association (FPA) said after the government announced the creation of a working group to consult with stakeholders. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said ...

ASIC concerned about SMSFs, warns spruikers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
The sharp rise in promoters recommending Australians to use their self-managed super fund (SMSF) to invest in property has led the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to remind property developers that they need a license to operate. ...

Yellen yawn turn to Yellen yikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
It was to be a non-event. Financial markets didn't expect the head of the world's biggest and mightiest central bank to deviate much - if at all - from her rhetoric of days gone by - when she delivers her semi-annual testimony on US monetary policy ...

Confidence key to financial future: Murray

COLIN BRINSDEN, AAP ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
The first review of the financial system since 1997 may result in lower superannuation fund fees and slow the erosion of retirement nest eggs. At a time when financial advisers and the Commonwealth Bank are under a cloud, the head of the financial system ...

FSI asks industry to consider greater ASIC powers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
The Financial System Inquiry (FSI) Committee, headed up by chairman David Murray, has questioned whether the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) requires greater powers to better monitor Australia's financial services industry. In ...

Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
Financial System Inquiry (FSI) chairman David Murray spoke at the National Press Club following the release of the FSI interim report. "Thank you to the National Press Club for the interest you have shown in today's release of the interim report of ...

Bank cross-sell growing but slowly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
While industry funds fear banks are targeting them to boost wallet share of their customers, research from Roy Morgan reveals banks lose more of their customers' business to other banks. According to the research, Roy Morgan found that the Big 4 retail ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
Something's wrong - very wrong - with this picture. There's troubling news in the geo-political arena due to escalating tensions in Iraq. There's also the price of iron ore dropping to near two-year lows. And yet... the Australian dollar did a peek-a-boo ...

Investors return to active global equities managers

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
Active managers in the global equities space are back in favour following an extended period of outflows, according to Fidelity portfolio manager Amit Lodha. Between 2008 and 2012, active global equity funds saw net outflows of US$825 billion (A$870 ...