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Financial System Inquiry response cut-out-and-keep guide

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... corporates issuing 'simple' corporate bonds to the retail market. "Technology-specific regulation can impede innovation and competition by preventing the adoption of the best technology or the most innovative business models. We will embed the technology ...

ASIC to be handed greater powers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... Consultation has also commenced on an industry-pays funding model. The government said it will strengthen the focus on competition in the financial system by explicitly including consideration of competition in ASIC's mandate and tasking the Productivity ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... that Australia was going to wake up to alternatives and that we could be the solution." Fast forward to today and the competition for infrastructure assets and alternative sources of return is a well-told story. The Future Fund, for instance, has had ...

Mercer appoints independent director

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... success in today's business environment, particularly superannuation." "The superannuation industry is facing fierce competition and disruption. Mercer is investing significantly to enhance the customer experience capability of our super fund clients ...

Super funds cautious about administration

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... "because they end up in a monopolistic environment." CareSuper chair Cate Wood said the fund found the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) decision to allow the Link Group purchase was interesting. "We viewed it from a fund level ...

Super fees almost halved in five years

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... product that is publicly available is offered by a major bank for a TER of 0.60%, illustrating the ferocity of price competition stemming from the new regulation. While retail fund fees in general are higher than NFPs, these funds offer variable pricing ...

Room to move on super investment fees

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
An increasing downward pressure and competition on superannuation fees may force super funds to become more passive in their investment strategies and potentially impair members' retirement savings. REST Industry Super chair Ken Marshman expressed this ...

KPMG pinpoints stagnant insurance industry

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... start-ups that are creating innovation challenges for the insurance sector. 40% of respondents say that increased competition from their existing competitors would create significant challenges over the next 2 years." He added, "However, the report also ...

Turnbull expected to dust off shelved policies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... said. "We encourage the new government to focus on polices which can be achieved and support an agenda which make competition, trade, tax and federation reform priorities." The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) chief executive, Tom ...

Japan joins Asia Region Funds Passport

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... Japan is one of Asia's largest funds sectors. Its participation will provide the passport with scale, efficiency, competition and choice. "The passport will offer investment managers across the region a viable alternative to the European Union's regime ...