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NAB upgrades advice compensation program

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... Committee during a public hearing in Canberra as part of the Scrutiny of Financial Advice inquiry. Committee chair and Labor Senator Sam Dastyari told NAB chief executive: "Mr Thorburn, you throw around the word 'independent'. There is nothing independent ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... explain what went wrong in their advice divisions at a public Senate hearing in Canberra on Tuesday. Chaired by Labor Senator Sam Dastyari, the Senate Economics Committee will interrogate Macquarie Group chief executive Nicolas Moore and head of banking ...

NAB to face Senate grilling over advice scandal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... why we called this hearing is because we want to get to the bottom of this issue with NAB as soon as possible," Labor Senator and Committee chair Sam Dastyari told the media minutes before the hearing. Reports in Fairfax Media of persistent bad behaviour ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Committee (ASIC). The inquiry, chaired by Labor Senator Mark Bishop, grilled ASIC commissioners and CBA executives equally. By the end of the Senate investigation, the reputation ...

FoFA disallowance could put industry into breach of law

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... reference to Lambie's move, Cormann noted that "public policy is getting caught up in internal party in-fighting." Labor Senator Sam Dastiary argued that "this is an important, timely and necessary debate," and asked the government to sit with the opposition ...

Questions raised about ANZ and Timbercorp

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... said that in January 2007 he was aware that Timbercorp's grape, olive, citrus and mango projects "were in trouble." Labor Senator and chair of the inquiry Sam Dastyari pointed to a key question that ANZ will have to answer either in its submission or ...

Coalition secures PUP support on FoFA vote

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... Advice (FoFA) legislation after it secured the support from Palmer United Party (PUP) and other crossbench Senators. Labor Senator Sam Dastiary's attempt to disallow the government's proposed changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) failed for ...

Opposition wants to postpone vote on FoFA bill

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... Senators urge the government to withdraw these amendments and work to bridge the widening chasm between the two sides," Labor Senator Sam Dastyari said in a dissenting report of the Senate Economics Committee inquiry into the latest FoFA changes. Dastyari ...

Bipartisan Senate inquiry to grill financial services again

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
Labor Senator Sam Dastyari has obtained the support from the Coalition to conduct a new Senate Economics Committee inquiry to scrutinise the financial services industry. The inquiry will continue the task of last year's Senate Economics Committee inquiry ...

FoFA legislative changes pass in the House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... government's proposal. The government's proposed changes to FoFA will now have to be voted for in the Senate, where Labor Senator and chair of the Economics Committee Sam Dastyari will present today a motion to disallow the changes. As many as 82 members ...