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FEATURE: In search of the missing asset class

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... sourced by Rice Warner and cited by the Australian Bankers Association (ABA) in one of its two submissions to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) show that SMSFs have just 1% in Australian fixed interest and even less in international bonds. NAB executive ...

Adviser appetite for infrastructure investments increasing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... exposure with some allocation to infrastructure and get a better outcome," Frankish said. In its submission to the Financial System Inquiry the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has called for improved access for self-directed investors. ...

CBA needs to"lift its game": Treasurer

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... argument that yet another inquiry might not be the best way forward," Cormann said. Bushby argued that the current Financial System Inquiry (FSI) was enough, and that a further royal commission would "incur significant cost to taxpayers without delivering ...

Government plays down support for royal commission

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... non-committal over the possibility of undertaking a royal commission, preferring to await its own inquiry into the financial system before taking further action. "We do obviously have an inquiry into financial governance going on now. We want to get ...

Senate report, a turning point for advice industry

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... in the way the advice sector operates. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) said that "Australia's complex financial system demands robust legislation, a strong and effective regulator and personal financial advice outcomes that benefit, and are ...

Bank ads confusing: research

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... and so lenders will be under more pressure to provide it." The survey results come as the Federal Government's Financial System Inquiry (FSI) considers changes to better position and broadly improve Australia's financial system. "We need a banking system ...

ASIC asks FSI for more flexible toolkit

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has called on the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to grant it a more flexible regulatory toolkit and increase its scope to address market problems. Giving a speech at the Corporate Governance ...

Murray shuns FoFA commissions' debate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
Financial System Inquiry (FSI) chairman David Murray has avoided weighing in on the debate about the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) amendments and the possibility that they could bring back commissions in advice. Speaking at the Institute of Chartered ...

Intra-fund advice is also a commission: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... hard to compare the analysis without a clear understanding of the assumptions," Treasury general manager of the financial system and services division Meghan Quinn said. "There are assumptions on what's going to happen with the current legislation that ...

Cuts to ASIC and ATO push industry to self-regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... as the regulator of financial advice, may provide further impetus to bring this forward." The AFA expects the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to provide further opinion on the appropriateness of self-regulation.