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Financial system inquiry panel revealed

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013

FSC asks Son of Wallis Inquiry to focus on export growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
The Financial Services Council (FSC) is looking at the Financial System Inquiry as an opportunity to find ways for Australia's financial services to maximise exports and ensure growth. In a submission to the terms of reference of the so-called Son of ...

SPAA defends status quo on SMSF regulation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... need to have a body that looks at the total systemic risk of the system," she said, adding that the upcoming financial system inquiry would provide a good opportunity to look at this possibility. Vamos said that, as the super system is designed to take ...

Franking credits hindering corporate bond market: AMP

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013
... up the corporate bond market, he said it would be too unpopular a move to even be considered in the upcoming financial system review. "It's never going to get on the table in that review," he said. The Australian investment grade corporate bond market ...

Lift aged pension to 70: Productivity Commission

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013
... an efficient investment environment," noted the report in what may be a veiled reference to the just announced Financial System Inquiry. These pressures could cost 6% of GDP by 2060 and require taxes to increase from 28% to 34% of GDP unless government ...

David Murray to head financial system inquiry

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
Future Fund inaugural chair David Murray has been appointed to head the inquiry into Australia's financial system, the Government has announced. Dubbed the "Son of Wallis" inquiry in reference to a similar inquiry led by Stan Wallis 16 years ago, the ...

ISA appoints former cabinet minister to advisory role

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has appointed the Hon Greg Combet AM to an advisory role for the next year. Combet served as a Cabinet Minister in the former Federal Government and is a former Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. As principal ...

SIFMA talks up Wall Street cyber defences

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... system wide attack to steal money through fraudulent trades rather than a privacy breach or an attack to crash the financial system. Its parameters (referred to in the report as 'attack vectors') were creation of multiple automatic sell-off targets by ...

Hockey Review to push for industry deregulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
The Government's Financial System Inquiry will undertake "a general health check" on the industry aimed at removing regulation, Treasurer Joe Hockey said. Speaking at the American Australian Association in New York, Hockey said that the inquiry will ...

Unthinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
... and principal payments and default-yes, that is the right word-on some other obligations. Second, the global financial system would begin a frantic search for a new international currency. U.S. Treasurys have long served that purpose. But if international ...