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Ex-Deutsche Bank exec joins Woolworths board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
Woolworths has appointed Deutsche Bank's former head of corporate finance for Australia and New Zealand Scott Perkins as a non-executive director. Prior to his role as head of corporate finance, Perkins was chief executive of Deutsche Bank New Zealand ...

Call general advice 'sales': CBA

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has recommended there be changes to the way that 'advice' is described in its second round submission that responds to the Financial System Inquiry's (FSI) Interim Report. In its 92 page submission published on the ...

FSI flooded with second round submissions

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... progressively over coming weeks. Submissions from some big financial services players including Macquarie and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have already been published. They cover ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
The Australian stock market has opened flat despite reports that Russian that are actively fighting in eastern Ukraine spooking markets overnight. All major US and European markets lost ground overnight as NATO said at least 1,00 Russian troops were ...

FSC: Appoint an ASIC commissioner for international issues

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... The agency would ensure Treasury, the Australian Tax Office, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, ASIC, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Prudential and Regulation Authority, integrate Australia's regulatory and international process. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... of rising prices amid a range of headwinds. Worries about Europe's poorly performing economies and whether or not central bank stimulus will be announced next week is weighing on traders, along with falling commodity prices. Asian markets were falling ...

IFM warns against foreign ownership of infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... able to rely on foreign capital to fund its long-term infrastructure needs," the submission said. The submission cited ANZ Bank estimates that more than $110 billion of Australian asset privatisations could take place before the end of this decade and ...

FoFA legislative changes pass in the House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... fine-print. The blunt reality is that confidence in the advice industry will continue to sink because financial advisers and bank staff will continue to receive sales incentives to recommend specific products." He added that "the changes will re-allow ...

Consumers overwhelmingly positive about super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
Positive consumer sentiment towards superannuation has increased in most areas over the last year, according to the Superannuation Sentiment Index 2014, conducted jointly by ING Direct and the Financial Services Council (FSC). Sixty-one per cent of ...

Australian Money Market adds CBA to platform

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... can be linked for the settlement of term deposit deals," he said. CBA joins existing cash management account providers ANZ, Bank of Queensland, Bankwest and Macquarie Bank. Australian Money Market facilitates the secure movement of funds between financial ...