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Portfolio disclosure a 'data dump' on consumers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
The proposed portfolio holdings disclosure rules amount to a "data dump" that is useless to consumers, according to Michael Gordon, group executive at Perpetual Investments. Arguing in the affirmative for the ACSA debate, 'Disclosure requirements... ...

We don't want to regulate SMSFs: APRA, ASIC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... regulators do not want to oversee self managed super funds (SMSF) deliberately avoiding the question when asked at the FSC conference whether they should or would if given an opportunity to do so. "We don't want to regulate SMSFs," said Ian Laughlin ...

Simplify your products, life insurers told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... do itself a big favour by simplifying its products enormously," he told delegates at the Financial Services Council conference on Wednesday. "I pick up a life insurance policy document and try to understand it - and I've been around for a few decades ...

Lump sum rules 'utterly unsustainable': Sherry

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... retirees to withdraw their superannuation as a lump sum. Speaking in the opening session of the Financial Services Council conference, Sherry, who is now a senior adviser at Citi Group, said the current rules need to be changed. "In my view it's utterly ...

Financial services export industry must rival iron ore

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... of the Financial Services Council Greg Cooper said in his opening address to delegates at the association's annual conference yesterday. "Selling financial services to individuals or companies outside Australia is as much an export as selling iron or ...

Australia at heart of new Asia-centric world order

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
Australia will be one of the countries most impacted by the seismic shift which will put Asia at the centre of a new world order. That is the opinion of the dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and ...

FSC Conference: Industry urged to prepare for Asia Passport pilot

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... existence of the scheme is to be guaranteed. That was the consensus of an expert panel gathered at the FSC's annual conference in Cairns. The panel included Liz Gray, a partner at global law firm K&L Gates with extensive experience in managing financial ...

FSC Conference: Follow the biopsychosocial model, life companies told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... biopsychosocial model, life company executives have heard. Speaking at the Financial Services Council (FSC) annual conference, Robin Chase of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians said often workplace injuries are just the beginning of health ...

FSC Conference: Experts forecast FSI outcomes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... Chipman outlined his expectation at the opening session of the Financial Services Council (FSC)'s three day annual conference in Cairns. He was joined in the discussion by Franklin Templeton managing director Maria Wilton and the chief executive for ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... Wednesday, the Housing Industry Association (HIA) releases its trades report for the June quarter. The Diggers and Dealers conference is on in Kalgoorlie, WA. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Tuesday fell for a third consecutive ...