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New players need support to enter financial services: Coles

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... offerings in personal financial services in offshore markets have demonstrated its importance in driving innovation, competition and greater consumer choice." It said that "there is a need for the framework to encourage competition and avoid unnecessary ...

Big four fail in cross-selling retail super funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... industry funds whose gains appear to a large extent to come from people switching jobs," he added. Morris predicted that "competition between banks and their specialist competitors in superannuation is likely to remain a problem for improving cross-sell ...

GSA an affordable alternative to DLAs: APRA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... requirements of authorised deposit-taking institutions, which the FSI interim reported suggested to facilitate greater competition between large and small ADIs.

Vertical integration good for consumers, competition: instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... financial services institutions have argued that vertical integration is positive for consumers because it helps market competition. The stakeholders have rebuffed the Financial System Inquiry's (FSI) concern that vertical integration might have a negative ...

Call general advice 'sales': CBA

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... commented: "Many observations in the Interim Report such as the priority of customer wellbeing and system resilience in competition, funding, stability, superannuation and technology positively reflect the Group's views.A A In some areas, Commonwealth ...

Consumers overwhelmingly positive about super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... of people saying they were in their employer's default fund, compared to 74% last year. Brogden said that increased competition as a result of the MySuper regime would lead to even more members exercising choice. "We're going to see more movement than ...

Infrastructure valuations at all-time highs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... "The growth in demand for infrastructure, along with the much improved availability of debt, has resulted in greater competition for assets, and for established brownfield assets in particular. This increased competition has caused rising valuations ...

Government tables FoFA bill in House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... the Parliament as legislation before the end of the year. Unsurprisingly, Greens spokesperson for consumer affairs, competition policy and small business Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said that the FoFA legislation "is aimed at locking into law the dodgy ...

ASFA asks FSI for clear targets to measure super success

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... circumstances. Ultimately, they must be able assess different choices, get the benefit of innovation and reap the rewards of competition," Vamos said.

CBA looks for plaintiffs to assist in remediation process

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... panel. Currently she is the executive director of Financial Counselling Australia (FCA) and a member of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's Consumer Consultative Committee (ACCCCCC). Advisory firm McGrathNicol has been appointed as independent ...