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Bank complaints over TV ads seek to "stifle" competition: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... fair representation or conveys a misleading impression," ASIC commissioner Greg Tanzer told the Parliamentary Joint Committee for corporations and financial services during a routine oversight of the regulator.

ASIC to consider complaints about ISA's 'Compare the Pair'

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... Tanzer confirmed that the regulator looked at the campaign during a routine oversight of ASIC at the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) for corporations and financial services. "We are looking at the campaign in the context of the complaints that have ...

Shorten gives Ripoll shadow superannuation portfolio

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... interest in superannuation and financial services and is most widely known for his role as Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, a committee that reviewed the Storm Financial scandal and whose recommendations ...

Victims push for new Trio fraud inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013
... Victims of Financial Fraud (VOFF) are pushing for another inquiry on the Trio Capital fraud after the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) failed to address the victims' main issues of concern. VOFF spokesperson Paul Matters told Financial Standard that ...

ASIC admits Commonwealth FP investigation was "not adequate"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... and Investments Commission (ASIC) has admitted. ASIC recently submitted a 18-page document to the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) that is investigating the regulator for having reacted late to whistleblower alerts that some financial planners at ...

Coalition signals super policy changes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... they pass on scale fee benefits. Paul Fletcher the federal member for Bradfield, who sits on the Parliamentary Joint Committee into Corporations and Financial Services, gave a speech to the H R Nichols Society this week where he attacked industry super ...

Coalition confirms plans for FoFA amendments

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... Superannuation Mathias Cormann said. "We will implement all 16 recommendations made as part of the Parliamentary Joint Committee inquiry into FoFA," the document said. The recommendations include the complete removal of opt-in, the simplification and ...

Opposition challenges Labor to review Trio fraud

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... inadequate". In a joint release with Liberal MP Paul Fletcher, Cormann called for Bowen to reconsider the Parliamentary Joint Committee's recommendation, saying a large number of victims had not been compensated. However, while Cormann expressed concern ...

TASA may also affect industry super funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and the Industry Super Network (ISN) have filed a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) expressing concern over the fact that the definition of 'advice' in the bill might capture industry super funds too. ...

Industry "disappointed" at PJC recommendation

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
The financial services industry has expressed disappointment over the report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC), which yesterday recommended the Parliament not to amend the Tax Agent Services Act (TASA) bill. The PJC on Corporations and Financial ...