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Business leaders recognised

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... Prime Minister Tony Abbott, former NSW premier Mike Baird, former Victorian premier Denis Napthine and former federal Liberal ministers Philip Ruddock and Bronwyn Bishop.

Asgard, Future Super shamed on ERS

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... approved for early release by the Australian Tax Office. Labor MP Andrew Leigh expressed concern that chair of the commission Liberal MP Tim Wilson was only enquiring about conflicts of interests in industry superannuation funds and not in retail funds. ...

Renewed scrutiny for ME Bank

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
Liberal MP Tim Wilson has asked to recall ME Bank to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics after correspondence with ASIC for a hearing later this week. During ME Bank chief executive James McPhee's appearance at the last ...

APRA quashes super liquidity concerns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... to. "Has APRA been contacted by or informed by any super fund that it has or anticipates having any liquidity issues?" Liberal Senator James Paterson asked. APRA deputy chair Helen Rowell said the regulator had been keeping tabs on the liquidity positions ...

APRA urged to probe industry funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
Liberal MP Tim Wilson has written to APRA chair Wayne Byres urging the regulator to conduct an investigation into vertical integration at industry super funds and related conflicts of interest. Wilson, who chairs the House of Representatives' Standing ...

FASEA blame game on in earnest

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
Both the government and the opposition have been happy to blame one another for the Parliament's failure to pass the FASEA extension bill this week. Was the parliament's failure to pass the FASEA extension a cheap political stunt by the opposition ...

Industry funds revise ERS modelling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... to a Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services question on notice reveals. ASIC was asked by Liberal Senator and Committee chair James Paterson what action it had taken on ISA's decision to use nominal rather than real figures ...

Vale Ted Evans

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... he held in a vice like grip. Belief and persistence were his strengths which he employed in powerful advocacy." Former Liberal treasurer Peter Costello said Evans believed in serving the public and had left "an enduring legacy to Australian economic ...

Positives from the pandemic for advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... have gone too far," Johnson said. "Shadow Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones has been vocal on this matter and Liberal Bert van Manen and Senator Amanda Stoker have also been highly critical of FASEA's conduct." He added that the honeymoon ...

Sunsuper Labor donations rile Bragg

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... committee hearing. Appearing before the Senate Economics Legislation Committee, APRA deputy chair Helen Rowell was grilled by Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg over the prudential regulator's lack of opinion on the $11,000 donation made by the large Queensland ...