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ASIC appoints new commissioner

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... the Council of Financial Regulators, the co-ordinating body for Australia's main financial regulatory agencies. Bernie Ripoll, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, said the appointment followed consultations with the Ministerial Council for Corporations. ...

PJC releases MySuper report

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
... super legislation. The PJC on Corporations and Financial Services is chaired by Labor MP Deborah O'Neill, after Bernie Ripoll was promoted to Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer in the cabinet reshuffle earlier this month. Other committee members ...

Annual fee collation too complex: FPA to PJC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services Bernie Ripoll has grilled the Financial Planning Association over claims the proposed annual Fee Disclosure Statement (FDS) as part of FOFA is unnecessary. Speaking at ...

PJC: Government needs to re-think payday reforms

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... concerns that proposed caps would affect the viability of short-term lending. The PJC inquiry, chaired by Labor MP Bernie Ripoll, has recommended the government review the proposals, describing the proposed caps on payday lending fees and charges as ...

Ripoll defends FOFA integrity

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... of reaching more clients if advisers are forced to pass on new costs to clients, driving up the cost of advice. Bernie Ripoll, MP and chair of the Ripoll enquiry responded that FOFA is not about costs, it is about changing the culture and behaviour of ...

FOFA reforms are a soft landing

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
Bernie Ripoll MP told AFA conference delegates that the future of financial advice reforms represent a balance between the interests of major stakeholders and the middle ground. Ripoll said the inquiry that bears his name received over 400 submissions ...

Industry panel turns up FOFA heat

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... separation of superannuation from the rest of the wealth management industry and disclosure among industry funds. Bernie Ripoll MP kicked off the discussion by reiterating his belief that the future of financial advice reforms (FOFA) are true to the ...

Government bowing to pressure on super risk commissions

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... to the proposition around individually advised risk products in super." Shorten said that government backbenchers Bernie Ripoll and Deb O'Neill had been very influential in the change of thinking. "The Financial Planners Association have been putting ...

Opposition slams opt-in policy

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... profession employs an obligatory opt-in policy and called for the 'best interest' approach to take precedence. Oxley MP Bernie Ripoll argued that opt-in, be it every 12 months or every 36 months, would play an important part in increasing engagement ...

Planners brace for fiduciary revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... to planners should cease and that ASIC significantly step up its shadow shopping and adviser policing activities. Bernie Ripoll, chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, handed down his Committee's 246 page report ...