The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has told the Productivity Commission it needs more powers and that its lack of powers has inhibited its ability to b...

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...

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

The Association of Financial Advisers has told the Productivity Commission that clients actually do get value from trailing commissions and should be informed of that val...

Providing self-managed super funds advice requires a higher standard than is being indicated by FASEA, according to the SMSF Association....

The Productivity Commission has been warned that both its methodology and attitude to self-managed superannuation funds may have opened the sector to attack from other el...

Class Limited has highlighted what it describes as significant SMSF gaps in the Productivity Commission's Superannuation Report and said is performing its own analysis to...

Consumer group Choice has called on the Productivity Commission to recommend a total ban on grandfathered commissions....

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned the Productivity Commission it is placing at risk historical special deals struck between employers and superannuation fu...

Colonial First State has told the Productivity Commission that the involvement of advisers in retail super funds together with an older member demographic makes compariso...

The Productivity Commission is wrong to assert that high fees are clearly associated with low super returns, according to superannuation fund ratings house, SuperRatings....

Industry Super Australia has strongly attacked the recommendations of the Productivity Commission on superannuation while arguing that advisers should be held liable for ...

Superannuation fund trustees should be held to the same standards as advisers in terms of explaining insurance inside superannuation and the impact on balance erosion, ac...

BT Financial Group has come out in support of the Productivity Commission’s recommendation for a list of the 10 “best in show” super funds, saying that strong funds shoul...