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Industry receives FoFA bill with mixed feelings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... through this kind of advice as AFA advisers provide personal advice. Industry Super Australia (ISA) chief executive David Whiteley said that the reforms "will do more harm than good for the financial advice industry and the consumers it serves." "In ...

Cormann to take over Sinodinos' duties

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... comfortable with the change," Fox said. Industry Super Australia (ISA) also welcomed the change and its chief executive David Whiteley noted that "with Senator Cormann we have a Minister who understands the industry, and has always sought to understand ...

Labor hopes to disallow FoFA amendments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... consumers and were arrived at after extensive consultation." In a letter to Industry Super Australia chief executive David Whiteley, opposition treasury spokesperson Chris Bowen said the government's decision to push the amendments through simultaneously ...

FoFA introduced into parliament with some tweaks

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... the re-introduction of commissions on investments and superannuation." Industry Super Australia (ISA) executive David Whiteley said that the FoFA reform bill would do more harm than good for the financial advice industry and consumers unless consensus ...

Super is now an economic driver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... Superannuation and the Financial System' that will form a major aspect of their submission to the FSI. ISA chief executive David Whiteley said, "The report shows beyond any doubt at all that super has properly 'grown up' into a key participant in the ...

PC calls for overhaul of public infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... long-term investor would be involved from the beginning of a new infrastructure project. ISA chief investment officer David Whiteley welcomed the PC's report. "We are potentially on the verge of a policy breakthrough on how infrastructure is financed ...

Removal of super from awards top priority: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... also came out strongly in favour of retaining the Fair Work Commission's involvement. The group's chief executive David Whiteley said: "Asking any person to select a superannuation fund from over 100 options is absurd. It places unreasonable search costs ...

Lawyer questions legality of FoFA amendments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... become the subject of protracted litigation between financial advisers and their clients." ISA chief executive David Whiteley said: "The advice indicates that the government's chosen path for amending these consumer protection laws would be likely to ...

Bowen's FoFA fears "complete rubbish": AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... told Financial Standard. Anderson also responded to comments from Industry Super Australia (ISA) chief executive David Whiteley saying that changes on the best interest obligation were "an extraordinary and unseemly scramble to" wind the reforms back." ...

FoFA changes must go before parliament: Collins

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... nature is done through proper parliamentary debate," he said. Collins' words' echoed those of ISA chief executive David Whiteley speaking at the same event. Whiteley said the proposed amendments to the best-interest test rules "are worse than what occurred ...