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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... down 35 points at 5,287. Locally, in economic news on Thursday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (financial system) Malcolm Edey and head of financial stability Luci Ellis, are slated to appear before the Senate Economics References Committee ...

FEATURE: Quenching the thirst for income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... classes. There has scarcely been a more important time to talk about investment income. Published in July, the Financial System Inquiry's (FSI's) interim report specifically raised concerns that the country's superannuation system was ill-equipped to ...

FSC advice regulation plan leaves AMP cold

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... and all our members and independent licensees," he said. However, today an FSC spokesperson said that the FSC's Financial System Inquiry (FSI) submission presenting the initiative had the sign off of the organisation's Advice Board Committee, which includes ...

Hockey accuses Labor of making "a mess" of FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... and the Greens asked the government to postpone again the vote on the changes to the FoFA legislation until the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) releases its conclusions.

HESTA CEO calls for carbon pricing

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... said HESTA was willing to work with governments to enact carbon pricing reforms. "Without carbon pricing, the financial system will continue to allocate capital to high-carbon activities, despite the low-carbon leadership of a number of institutional ...

FPA rejects FSC adviser regulation plans

ALICE URIBE, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... "reinventing the wheel." As reported by Financial Standard earlier this month the FSC, in its submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI), asked the government to set up a new body, the Advice Competency Standards Board (ACSB), to oversee the development ...

Opposition wants to postpone vote on FoFA bill

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... government to postpone again the vote on the changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation until the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) releases its conclusions. "Labor Senators urge the government to withdraw these amendments and work to ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... (AFR) reports that banks' share prices are also under pressure from "A building expectation the government's Financial System Inquiry headed by David Murray will require the banks to hold more capital". And what would a list of bad news be without Nouriel ...

Tight regulation getting in the way of digital advice: Minter Ellison

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... that do not contain financial product advice or only general advice," the law firm said in a submission to the Financial System Inquiry. Minter Ellison argued that there is "great potential for online tools to enable consumers to obtain a great deal ...

Expect more regulation on 'too-big-to-fail': Hockey

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... plan that will increase consistency in banks' application of the strengthened Basel III rules on capital." The Financial System Inquiry (FSI) is also seeking consultation on this issue and suggested in its interim report that perceptions that some institutions ...