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ASIC imposes conditions on Guardian Advice

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has imposed conditions on the licence of Suncorp-owned Guardian Advice following a surveillance which uncovered deficiencies in the advice it provided to retail clients. ASIC said the company ...

Government repeals Palmer FoFA changes

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2014
The government has repealed the Palmer United Party's (PUP) proposed changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation and grandfathering amendments have become law. The registration of the grandfathering provisions will see these regulations ...

Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
"'Tis the season to be jolly, fa-la-la-la-la...", "silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright..." Bah, humbug! The negative news flow and speculations over the past 24 hours would, like ol' Ebenezer Scrooge, make you, I and Irene hate Christmas. ...

Government Cyber Security Strategy already out of date

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
Financial System Inquiry (FSI) chair David Murray has called for government and other financial system stakeholders to tighten processes to counter the growing threat of cyber-crime. Recommendation 38 in the final report of the FSI said the government's ...

AMP Capital joins mFund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
AMP Capital has joined ASX's mFund Settlement Service, listing six of its funds on the service. This takes the number of fund managers listed on the service to 23, and the number of funds to 70. ASX managed investment services manager Ian Irvine said ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... Financial Standard we revisit the big issues that affected the financial services industry this year. We also cover the CIO & COO Awards, the 2014 Selecting Super Awards and the Smileys. You can read these articles on your iPad by downloading Financial ...

Boost impact investing, says FSI

MARK SMITH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
Impact investment was singled out in the final report of the Financial System Inquiry as an area that needs to be given greater attention. Recommendation 32 called for ways to facilitate development of the impact investment market and encourage innovation ...

High-calibre superannuation: 2014 CIO and COO Award recipients announced

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... Leading superannuation fund executives were recognised at the 2014 Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Awards held in Melbourne last night. When Sam Sicilia's name was announced as this year's recipient of the annual Chief ...

SMSF court case highlights penalty uncertainties

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
The Federal Court's ruling on a case involving two self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees who used their fund for personal matters has highlighted the uncertainty around penalties. The fund, totaling more than $260k, was used to purchase residential ...

ASIC calls for standard cyber risk measure

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
The threat of cyber-attacks is "a fact of life" and there is a need to establish an international methodology to measure the businesses' vulnerability to the risk, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft said. ...