COMPETITION

Superannuation

The Institute of Public Accountants has called for more consideration of whether the inefficiencies of the superannuation system are due to a lack of marketplace competit...

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People & Products

A Deakin University student has won the 2018 AMP University Challenge and the $5,000 first prize. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has told a key parliamentary committee it is funded and empowered to be the financial services “competition champion”....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has forecast a ‘new competitive dynamic’ in the wake of the banks divesting their insurance and wealth management bus...

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Policy & Regulation

The Productivity Commission’s competition report shows that “more and more regulation can be harmful to consumers because it weakens competition,” the Customer Owned Bank...

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Policy & Regulation

The Productivity Commission has recommended that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission take on the role of “competition champion for the financial system”....

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Superannuation

The Productivity Commission has delivered a draft report on superannuation competitiveness and efficiency which delivers on the Government’s terms of reference with respe...

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Policy & Regulation

In the midst of a Productivity Commission inquiry into competition in financial services, the Government has proposed measures to make the Australian Securities and Inves...

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Funds management

New research has pointed to rising competition from new and cheaper products driving down funds management fees....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 1 week ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

4 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

6 months 2 weeks ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

1 week 3 days ago

ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

4 days 1 hour ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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