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Industry should help fund ASIC: ANZ

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... chief executive officer Graham Hodges told a Senate Economics Committee hearing within the Scrutiny of Financial Advice inquiry that "the industry must take responsibility for its actions." The regulator "will never have sufficient resources to fully ...

Industry needs to act after Trowbridge report failure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... supported adopting the recommendations made in the parliamentary joint committee on corporations and financial services inquiry: degree-level qualifications, 12 months of supervised training and a registration exam following the training period. The ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... executives of Macquarie Group, National Australia Bank and Commonwealth Bank are due to appear before Senate committee inquiry into financial advice services. Rio Tinto and Oil Search are slated to post first quarter production reports. Leighton Holdings ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... was the first to raise concerns in Parliament about cases of misconduct by CBA advisers and he tabled the motion for an inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in mid-2013. "We need to know if banks ...

Bernie Ripoll to retire from federal politics

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) acknowledged Ripoll's role as chair of the Parliamentary Joint Commission (PJC) inquiry into financial services and products that produced the report that recommended the FoFA reform. "As a result of Ripoll's ...

FOS decries unpaid compensation

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... improvements in Australia's financial system. The call comes as part of the service's submission to the Financial System Inquiry Final Report which is aiming to map a blueprint for the sector over the next decade. "As previously raised in our submissions ...

Digital currency continues to be monitored: RBA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... of monetary policy and financial stability mandates. The RBA recently addressed a Senate Economics References Committee inquiry about digital currency and said it continues to monitor developments in the area. RBA head of payments policy Tony Richards ...

Regional banks call for FSI reforms without delay

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... Australia's four leading regional banks raised three key issues in their submission to the federal government's Financial System Inquiry Final Report recently. Regional banks including Suncorp Bank, ME Bank, Bank of Queensland and Bendigo and Adelaide ...

FSI must lift value in super system: AVCAL

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... incomes. The call comes as one of four key issues raised by AVCAL in its submission to the government's Financial System Inquiry Final Report due last month. AVCAL recommends "disclosure settings for superannuation funds should be designed to encourage ...

Changes to super tax needed: AIST

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... $400,000 in government support received by those in the bottom decile, largely through the Age Pension. AIST believes the tax inquiry would be an opportunity to improve the targeting of tax concessions for those at the top end of income spectrum. The ...