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PwC partner to join NAB board

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
A PricewaterhouseCoopers partner will retire in July and join the National Australia Bank (NAB) as a non-executive director of the board. NAB chairman Michael Chaney confirmed that PwC partner David Armstrong's role as board director will start on August ...

Murray shuns FoFA commissions' debate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
Financial System Inquiry (FSI) chairman David Murray has avoided weighing in on the debate about the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) amendments and the possibility that they could bring back commissions in advice. Speaking at the Institute of Chartered ...

ICAA questions AFSL system, calls for individual licensing

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
The Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia (ICAA) has said that the current practice of individual financial advisers operating under the Australian Financial Services Licences (AFSLs) of institutions could result in a decline of competition and ...

Industry pushes for more consumer protection under FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
The financial services industry has welcomed the Finance Minister Mathias Cormann's decision to temporarily freeze the amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation, which some stakeholders believe will lead to increased consumer protection. ...

AMP Capital expands US and UK-based infra team

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... as associate director.A He previously worked in the finance team at British Land and is a fully qualified chartered accountant. Haight and Fox will both report to AMP Capital infrastructure debt principal Richard Lane. In New York, Spencer Ivey has been ...

Accountants cautious to enter advice space

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013
Accountants are entering the advice space in very limited numbers and almost six months after the accountant exemption ended, only 31 have applied for a limited Australian financial services licence (AFSL). "Accountants will not be rushing into limited ...

AVCAL appoints ICAA exec as CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
The Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL) has appointed a senior executive from the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia (ICAA) as new chief executive. Yasser El-Ansary will be AVCAL chief executive starting ...

75,000 SMSFs non-compliant: ATO

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
The Australian Taxation Office has admitted that as many as 75,000 SMSFs totaling assets up to $50 billion could be breaking the rules, leading some in the industry to suggest that the sector should be subject to tighter regulation. Last month Australian ...

Abbott sticks to his promise on SMSF regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has made clear that he isn't planning to make changes to the self-managed super fund (SMSF) sector even after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) red flagged DIY investors' property exposure. "What we said was that there would ...

Industry agrees: SMSFs are not for everyone

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
Industry bodies have welcomed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) consultation paper asking for better regulation for establishing and advising self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF). "The announcement by ASIC today is consistent ...