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Enter AFA's best tweet competition

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... of Financial Advisers (AFA) is putting social front and centre at the AFA 2014 National Adviser Conference with a competition for "best" tweeters. Conference delegates have the chance to win "best tweet of the day" and "best tweet of the conference" ...

MySuper hurts low balance members: UniSuper CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... using ERFs, even though their members might be better off if they were in one. He put this down to the increasing competition among funds, which will only increase further if super is removed from awards. UniSuper's readiness to roll members out of its ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... market for building products in more than a decade. Foodmaker Goodman Fielder was up 0.5 cents at 62.5 cents after the competition watchdog cleared the way for an Asian consortium to buy the company. On Wall Street overnight, stocks rose in the wake ...

Hockey names infrastructure top priority for G20

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... over the longer term must be earned through policy reforms such as deregulation of trade and labour markets, fairer competition policy, and tax and trade reform." After infrastructure, he said his second priority was to ensure that multinationals pay ...

Client education initiative joins AdviceInnovation

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... platform includes modules, articles, videos, life events, calculators, downloads, quizzes, jargon busters and a regular competition. Innergi's managing director Robert Skinner says the Financial Knowledge Centre is robust, professional and fun, offering ...

Super fees drop as fund war rolls on

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... centre of public debate since David Murray's Financial System Inquiry (FSI) flagged that there is little fee-based competition and that "fees appear high by international standards." But the Rainmaker 2014 Super Fund Fee Survey revealed that fees fell ...

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 ...