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Fundraise like a RockStar

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... industry calendar. The idea is simple: get finance professionals with a passion for music to compete in a singing competition aptly titled 'Who Wants to be a Rockstar?' Simple but effective. Last year, despite heavy rain on the night, more than 900 guests ...

NPP to take super by storm: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... separate initiative, CBA, Westpac and NAB have partnered to build their own mobile payments wallet after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) denied them access to Apple's digital payment technology, Apple Pay, in March last year. ...

Kerr Neilson steps down as Platinum chief

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... investing as being like "passive hunting." "It's great fun! So the key here is that you're always trying to outrun the competition, you're always trying to find a new angle on something," he said. "The more you see, the more you think you can see. You ...

Chief economist update: Wagering on wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
... reluctant to raise their prices. This is a theme from our liaison with the business community. They appear to believe that competition is so intense that they would lose too much business if they did so. So they are especially reluctant to grant wage ...

La Trobe marches credit fund beyond $2bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... and the benchmark index have fallen over the year, which has been driven by all-time low cash rates and increased competition from the banks resulting in the tightening of margins." US private equity giant Blackstone recently purchased an 80% stake in ...

Pension fund and bank terminate asset manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... opted to delay termination for six months, agreeing to discuss means of maintaining the relationship and address the competition issue. No such agreement was reached and, as such, Scottish Widows and Lloyds Wealth have terminated the contracts and set ...

IFAs tackling bank-owned competitors head on

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... independent financial advisers (IFAs) do not feel threatened by their bank-owned counterparts and are willing to take the competition head on. According to GlobalData's 2017 IFA survey, only a handful of IFAs perceive competition from universal banks ...

Morrison unveils open banking framework

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... competitive deals elsewhere. The report recommended the ACCC should be primarily responsible for standards-setting, competition and consumer issues, security measures and data transfer; an internal and external dispute resolution processes to resolve ...

Fintechs save time: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... plan to engage with fintechs at all. Despite the Federal Government's effort to champion fintech initiatives to boost competition in the financial sector and provide consumers with more product choice, no respondent indicated intentions to engage with ...

Government passes BEAR reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... Opposition recognise the importance of customer owned banking and the vital role it plays in delivering diversity and competition in retail banking," COBA chief executive Michael Lawrence said. He added that it is critical to minimise regulatory expenditure ...