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FSI zeroes in on vertical advice and retirement income

LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
In its interim report released today the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) has suggested that the vertically integrated structures may be reducing the quality of financial advice that consumers receive. The FSI has asked stakeholders to consider different ...

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 ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... Asset Management country head of fixed income Anthony Kirkham and take a closer look at the fallout out from the ASIC inquiry. You can read these articles on your iPad by downloading Financial Standard iPadA(C) app free from the App store, for a limited ...

ASIC considers compulsory advice for complex products

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... distribution channels are two of the measures ASIC has suggested for consideration in its submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). Intervening in the way products are designed and developed another regulatory option suggested to the FSI for ...

CBA unveils tougher adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
In the wake of the Senate inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) will lift the minimum education standards for its financial advisers and demand that they belong to a ...

Labor questions Murray, calls for another inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
The opposition has called for a further parliamentary inquiry into the Australian Securities and Investment Commission and the Commonwealth Bank and branded the government's plans to examine financial advice scandals as part of the Financial System ...

Macquarie rebukes advice, compliance concerns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... prompted by an article in the Australian Financial Review quoting several members of the Committee that conducted the inquiry. The senators claimed that Macquarie had refused to respond to a significant number of consumer complaints received by the Committee. ...

CBA reaction too slow, too little, too late

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... government to establish a summit of industry leaders to address the 61 recommendations of the Senate Economics Committee inquiry into the financial services regulator. The Governance Institute of Australia also issued a statement following the bank's ...

FEATURE: In search of the missing asset class

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... 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 general ...

CBA's Narev leaves key questions unanswered

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... will be a part of it, are expected to be answered in the coming days. Read all Financial Standard coverage of the ASIC inquiry and the consequences for CBA here