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CSRI identifies super flaws

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
Ahead of its post-budget forum on June 2, the Committee for Sustainable Retirement Incomes has identified key issues with Australia's superannuation system in its FSI submission. According to CSRI's statement, the submission "identified as a priority ...

Advisers Register hits 22k

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
Within a month of being launched the Financial Advisers Register has added about 3,000 advisers to its list, now providing consumers with an ability to search more than 22,000 in the industry. Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
Australia's top bankers will have to 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 ...

PROFILE: HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
"I love the fact that Melbourne has lots of immigrants and great, multicultural suburbs," she says, comparing it to the quiet suburb in Durban, South Africa, where she spent most of her childhood and early years of her adult life. A computer programmer ...

Former Gold Coast adviser sentenced

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
A former Gold Coast financial adviser has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for false and misleading statements and providing advice without a reasonable basis. Ian John Weaver, working at Enhance Capital and The Salisbury Group during the time ...

Australian Unity fund added to Emerald Wrap

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
Australian Unity's Altius Sustainable Bond Fund has been added to the Instreet-owned "responsible investment" product, The Emerald Wrap. Targeted at the ethical investor market, the Emerald Wrap has been building its product suite since Instreet acquired ...

Super governance at centre stage

ANDREW BRAGG, FSC DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND GLOBAL MARKETS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
2015 has already been a bumper year in financial services policy with super front and centre. Reforms to improve superannuation governance, competition and transparency appear to be the first cab off the rank. These reforms look likely to occur in a ...

Advice M&A activity set to soar in 2015

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
Advice business mergers and acquisitions are set to reach unprecedented levels in 2015 thanks to regulatory certainty and an increasing demand for independent financial advice. "The shackles of poor investment markets and legislative uncertainty have ...

Australia and Switzerland agree tax crackdown

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey and Swiss Ambassador Marcel Stutz have agreed to increase cooperation to tackle tax evasion. Under the agreement, the Australian Taxation Office will automatically receive details of financial accounts such as investment ...

Government urged to leave super taxation alone

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
A shake-up of taxation within superannuation would undermine confidence in the country's retirement savings system, according to SMSF Association patron Sir Anthony Mason. Addressing delegates at the SMSF Association's National Conference in Melbourne ...